1884 in birding and ornithology


 * See also 1883 in birding and ornithology, main events of 1884 and 1885 in birding and ornithology

The year 1884 in birding and ornithology.

New species

 * Birds described in 1884 include  Blakiston's fish owl, grey-crowned flatbill, rose-collared piha, St Kilda wren, Corsican nuthatch, golden-winged sunbird, Fischer's starling, Streak-backed antshrike, Lagden's bushshrike, Timor stubtail, brown lory, black-capped social weaver, Böhm's flycatcher

Events

 * Léon Olphe-Galliard begins publishing papers on European birds.
 * First meeting of International Ornithological Committee
 * Gyula Madarász founds the German-language ornithological journal Zeitschrift für die gesamte Ornithologie
 * Carl August Bolle becomes Chairman of Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft
 * The Auk, the official publication of the American Ornithological Society (AOS) established

Deaths

 * Hermann Schlegel (10 June 1804 – 17 January 1884)

Publications

 * Władysław Taczanowski, 1884. Ornithologie du Pérou. R. Friedländer & Sohn. Berlin. Vol 2: 566 pp.
 * George Ernest Shelley On five new or little-known Species of East-African Birds, represented in Mr. H. H. Johnston's First Collection from the Kilimanjaro District Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1884:554-558
 * Henry Eeles Dresser, A Monograph of the Meropidae, or Family of the Bee-eaters. London: self-published.(1884–1886)
 * Gustav Fischer with Anton Reichenow in Journal für Ornithologie online BHL

Ongoing events
 * Osbert Salvin and Frederick DuCane Godman 1879–1904. Biologia Centrali-Americana . Aves
 * Richard Bowdler Sharpe Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum London,1874–98.
 * The Ibis
 * Members of the German Ornithologists' Society in Journal für Ornithologie