1848 in birding and ornithology


 * Wilhelm Gueinzius ornithological collection sold to the museum of Leipzig University
 * Ludwig Becker leaves Germany during the 1848 revolution. Many scientists left Europe at this time.
 * Thomas Richard Heywood Thomson and William Allen publish A narrative of the expedition sent by Her Majesty's government to the river Niger, in 1841, under the command of Capt. H. D. Trotter, R.N
 * Hugh Edwin Strickland publishes The Dodo and its Kindred
 * Death of Ludwig Leichhardt
 * Joseph Wolf arrives in London and begins work at the British Museum

Ongoing events
 * Fauna Japonica