1848 in birding and ornithology

• Wilhelm Gueinzius ornithological collection sold to the museum of Leipzig University
• Ludwig Becker leaves Germany during the 1848 revolution. Many scientists left Europe at this time.
• Thomas Richard Heywood Thomson and William Allen publish A narrative of the expedition sent by Her Majesty's government to the river Niger, in 1841, under the command of Capt. H. D. Trotter, R.N
• Hugh Edwin Strickland publishes The Dodo and its Kindred
• Death of Ludwig Leichhardt
• Joseph Wolf arrives in London and begins work at the British Museum