1825 in birding and ornithology

Events

 * Bernard Germain de Lacépède.jpg of Bernard Germain de Lacépède
 * Charles Lucien Bonaparte updates Wilson's American Ornithology as American ornithology, or, The natural history of birds inhabiting the United States, not given by Wilson : with figures drawn, engraved, and coloured, from nature. He added more than 100 species.
 * William Jardine and Prideaux John Selby commence the serial publication Illustrations of Ornithology (1825–1843).
 * The Volieren (aviary) for birds of prey opened at Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes in Paris
 * Lord Charles Somerset founds the South African Museum
 * 1825–1828 Carl Peter Holbøll becomes Royal Inspector of Colonies and Whaling in South Greenland
 * Foundation of Bergen Museum.

Expeditions

 * 1825-28 Circumnavigation by the sloop H.M.S. "Blossom" under Frederick William Beechey (commander), Edward Belcher (surveyor), Alexander Collie,(surgeon and naturalist), George Tradescant Lay (naturalist)

Ongoing events

 * 1824-1825 Johann Baptist von Spix Avium Species Novae Birds first described in this work in 1825 include  the social flycatcher, the spot-winged wood-quail, the black-fronted piping-guan, the blue-crowned manakin, the razor-billed curassow, and the wattled curassow