1834 in birding and ornithology

Ongoing Events New bird species described in this work in 1834 include Lincoln's sparrow, the king rail, Swainson's warbler and the Carolina chickadee
 * Elizabeth Gould collaborates with Edward Lear in illustrating A Monograph of the Ramphastidae
 * 1834-1835 Charles Coxen travels through the sparsely settled country between the Hunter and Namoi Rivers, including the Liverpool Plains, collecting specimens of birds and mammals.
 * Permanent human settlement on Lord Howe Island begins the extinction of the Lord Howe swamphen or white gallinule, white-throated pigeon, red-crowned parakeet and the Tasman booby.
 * Franz Meyen describes species then new to science such as the Humboldt penguin and the mountain caracara
 * Thomas Nuttall publishes Volume 2 (and last) of Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and of Canada (1832 and 1834)
 * Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger publishes Vollständiges Handbuch der Naturgeschichte der Vögel Europas
 * Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby withdraws from politics to concentrate on birds.
 * Pink-footed goose described by Louis Antoine François Baillon in Mémoires de la Société Royale d'Émulation d'Abbeville
 * John James Audubon Birds of America