1847 in birding and ornithology


 * Alfred Edmund Brehm joins Johann Wilhelm von Müller on an expedition to Egypt, the Sudan, and the Sinai peninsula.
 * Death of Johann Conrad Susemihl
 * Death of Giuseppe Géné
 * René Primevère Lesson receives the Legion of Honour
 * Jean Louis Cabanis erects the genus Geothlypis in Ornithologische Notizen. Archiv für Naturgeschichte
 * William Henry Edwards publishes A Voyage Up the River Amazon, with a residency at Pará

Ongoing events
 * Fauna Japonica