1802 in birding and ornithology


 * Johann Matthäus Bechstein Ornithologisches Taschenbuch 1802–1803.
 * Matthew Flinders discovered the soon to be extinct Kangaroo Island emu
 * George Montagu publishes Ornithogical Dictionary; or Alphabetical Synopsis of British Birds
 * Louis Dufresne popularized the use of arsenical soap for preserving birds in an article in Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle a technique which had enabled the Muséum to build the greatest collection of birds in the world.
 * John Latham published Supplementum Indicis Ornithologici, sive Systematis Ornithologiae. In this work he scientifically describes the noisy miner, the white-tailed tropicbird, the azure kingfisher, the rufous whistler and the scarlet honeyeater amongst many other birds.
 * The white-naped honeyeater described by Louis Pierre Vieillot and Jean Baptiste Audebert in Oiseaux dorés, ou à reflets métalliques