1832 in birding and ornithology


 * William Henry Sykes publishes his catalogues of birds and mammals of the Deccan in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. This included fifty-six birds new to science, including the Indian pond heron.
 * Édouard Ménétries describes Sylvia mystacea now known as Menetries's warbler
 * René Primevère Lesson commences Illustrations de Zoologie (1832–35)
 * Johann Georg Wagler moves the northern bald ibis to a new genus Geronticus (from the genus Upupa Carl Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Death of Georges Cuvier
 * Death of Karl Rudolphi
 * Death of Louis Dufresne
 * Charles Lucien Bonaparte commences Iconografia della Fauna Italica (1832–1841)
 * The Reverend John Bachman, who presented study skins and descriptions to his friend and collaborator John James Audubon, discovers Bachman's warbler.
 * Foundation of Muséum d'histoire naturelle de La Rochelle
 * George Loddiges describes the mountain avocetbill, the Tyrian metaltail and the buff-tailed coronet