1835 in birding and ornithology

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• The Beagle lands at the Galápagos Islands and Charles Darwin collects the finches which bear his name.
• Carl Jakob Sundevall develops a phylogeny for the birds in Lärobok i zoologien (Handbook of Zoology). This is based on the muscles of the hip and leg.
• Frédéric de Lafresnaye describes the Magpie Mannikin and the Cactus Wren in Revue et magasin de zoologie (founded by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville.
• Death of Alexander Collie
• Death of Carl Wilhelm Hahn
• Alexander von Nordmann describes Spotted Redshank in Reise um die erde durch Nord-Asien und die beiden oceane in den jahren 1828, 1829 und 1830 ausgeführt
• 1835-1839 Philip Barker Webb, Sabin Berthelot and Alfred Moquin-Tandon begin L'Histoire Naturelle des Îles Canaries published in Paris
• Charles Thorold Wood publishes The Ornithological Guide
• Thomas Barwick Lloyd Baker publishes An Ornithological Index