1891 in birding and ornithology


 * Birds described in 1891 include Basra reed warbler, Cape shoveler, charming hummingbird, cobalt-winged parakeet, Lord Howe parakeet,  Kermadec red-crowned parakeet, Pangani longclaw, Patagonian yellow finch, Père David's tit,

Events

 * Peary expedition to Greenland
 * Joseph joins the British Ornithologists' Union
 * Death of August von Pelzeln
 * Giacomo Damiani joins forces with Enrico Giglioli

Publications
Ongoing events
 * Ernst Hartert Katalog der Vogelsammlung in Museum der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt a.M.,Knauer,1891. online
 * Tommaso Salvadori, 1891. Catalogue of birds in the British Museum. Vol. 20. British Museum, London.
 * Valentin Bianchi 1891 The birds of Gansu expedition of G.N. Potanin 1884–1887 (with Mikhail Mikhailovich Berezovsky)
 * Richard Bowdler Sharpe Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise, and Ptilonorhynchidae, or Bower-birds. (2 volumes). London: Henry Sotheran. 1891–1898. online BHL
 * 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.
 * Eugene W. Oates and William Thomas Blanford 1889–1898. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Vols. I-IV. Birds.
 * Anton Reichenow, Jean Cabanis, and other members of the German Ornithologists' Society in Journal für Ornithologie online BHL
 * The Ibis
 * Ornis; internationale Zeitschrift für die gesammte Ornithologie.Vienna 1885-1905online BHL
 * The Auk online BHL