1850 in birding and ornithology
| Years in birding and ornithology: | 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 |
| Centuries: | 18th century · 19th century · 20th century |
| Decades: | 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s |
| Years: | 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 |
The now extinct Bonin grosbeak was placed in a new genus in Charles Bonaparte's 1850 monograph Conspectus Generum Avium
- Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft founded
- Charles Lucien Bonaparte publishes Conspectus Generum Avium (Leyden) ; Revue critique de l'ornithologie Européenne (Brussels) and Monographie des loxiens (crossbills, grosbeaks, and allied species) (Leyden)
- Edward Smith-Stanley obtains a grey trembler specimen from the bird collector Jules Verreaux
- John Gould commences The Birds of Asia (1850–83)
- Francis Orpen Morris begins A History of British Birds (1850–1857)
- Extinction of the spectacled cormorant
- The Berlin Museum has a total of 13,760 bird specimens.
Ongoing events
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