1854 in birding and ornithology

Ongoing events
 * Orders Gruiformes and Ciconiiformes established.
 * Adolphe Delattre and Johann Friedrich Naumann die in this year.
 * Italian bird collector Matteo Botteri travels to Mexico.
 * Réunion ibis described by Edmond de Sélys Longchamps.Other birds described in 1854 include fire-capped tit, thick-billed spiderhunter, cinnamon woodpecker, brown-breasted barbet, black-streaked puffbird, Hornby's storm petrel.
 * Edgar Leopold Layard travels to Cape Colony.
 * Jean-Baptiste Bailly publishes Ornithologie de la Savoie.
 * John Gould The birds of Australia; Supplement 1851–69. 1 vol. 81 plates; Artists: J. Gould and H. C. Richter; Lithographer: H. C. Richter
 * John Gould The birds of Asia; 1850-83 7 vols. 530 plates, Artists: J. Gould, H. C. Richter, W. Hart and J. Wolf; Lithographers:H. C. Richter and W. Hart