2008 in birding and ornithology


 * See also 2007 in birding and ornithology, main events of 2008 and 2009 in birding and ornithology

The year 2008 in birding and ornithology.

New species

 * See also Bird species new to science described in the 2000s


 * The olive-backed forest robin is first described by Smithsonian ornithologists who discovered it in Gabon.

Deaths

 * Johnathan Claud 1972-2008
 * Barbara De Wolfe
 * Derek Goodwin
 * Harrison B. Tordoff
 * Himmatsinhji M. K.
 * Jennifer F. M. Horne
 * John Danzenbaker
 * Melvin Alvah Traylor, Jr.
 * Robert W. Storer

Rare birds

 * Britain's second American purple gallinule found dead in April or May 2008 at Old Warden Bedfordshire.

Scandinavia
To be completed

North America
To be completed