1830 in birding and ornithology


 * 1830–1835 Thomas Hardwicke collaborates with John Edward Gray in the publication of Illustrations of Indian Zoology
 * John Gould publishes A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains (1830–1832)
 * Settlement of Chichi-jima begins leading to the extinction of the Bonin grosbeak
 * Death of Joseph Philippe de Clairville and Charles Dumont de Sainte-Croix
 * Karl Michahelles describes the western rock nuthatch
 * Ferdinand Heine senior begins assembling a bird museum. It becomes one of the largest 19th-century collections de:Museum Heineanum
 * Jacob Ernst von Reider and Carl Wilhelm Hahn begin Fauna Boica, oder gemeinnützige Naturgeschichte der Thiere Bayerns
 * Joshua Brookes publishes Museum Brookesianum Embracing an Almost Endless Assemblage of Every Species of Anatomical, Pathological, Obstetrical, and Zootomical Preparations, as well as Subjects in Natural History
 * A long known mixture of arsenic and soap used by taxidermists is popularized as the Bécœur recipe.

Ongoing events
 * Coenraad Jacob Temminck  Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux Birds first described in this work in 1830 include the garnet pitta, the copper pheasant, the brown barbet, the blue-banded kingfisher, the Japanese wood-pigeon and the brown-eared bulbul
 * René Primevère Lesson Traite d'Ornithologie