1801 in birding and ornithology

Years in birding and ornithology:	1798 1799 1800 1801 1802 1803 1804
Centuries:	18th century · 19th century · 20th century
Decades:	1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s
Years:	1798 1799 1800 1801 1802 1803 1804

"Perruche Ara Guarouba femelle" painted by Jacques Barraband. From Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets by François Levaillant

• John Latham publishes A General Synopsis of Birds (1781–1801)
• Jacques Barraband is commissioned to produce a series of watercolours of birds by Napoleon Bonaparte.
• Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent spends two years exploring Réunion and other islands in the Indian Ocean.
• Birds described in 1801 include the Norfolk Island ground-dove, the Puerto Rican emerald, the bell miner the pallid cuckoo and the purple swamphen
• The green mango hummingbird described by Louis Pierre Vieillot and Jean Baptiste Audebert in Oiseaux dorés, ou à reflets métalliques
• Naturhistorische Gesellschaft Nürnberg (Natural History Society of Nuremberg founded. The society's museum is Naturhistorische Gesellschaft Nürnberg e. V.