1896 in birding and ornithology

• Birds described in 1896 include black-fronted bushshrike, buff-faced scrubwren, coppery-tailed coucal, crested white-eye, Madagascar plover, orange-billed lorikeet, Ruspoli's turaco, Visayan pygmy babbler, Storm's stork, green-headed oriole

• Death of Juan Gundlach, Henry Barnes-Lawrence, John Stanislaw Kubary,
• Henry Seebohm bequeaths his collection of bird-skins to the British Museum

• Richard Bowdler Sharpe A Hand-Book to the Birds of Great Britain. (4 volumes). London: Edward Lloyd. 1896–1897.
• George Ernest Shelley The birds of Africa, comprising all the species which occur in the Ethiopian region (1896-1912, 5 vols). London,Published for the author by R.H. Porter (18 Princes Street, Cavendish Square, W.),1896-1912.online BHL
• John Cordeaux Order Anseres in Arthur Gardiner Butler British Birds with their Nests and Eggs in six volumes Brumby & Clarke Ltd. 1896 Hull / London online BHL
• Ernst Hartert An Account of the Collections of Birds made by Mr. William Doherty in the Eastern Archipelago. Novitates Zoologicae iii. p. 537, 1896 online BHL

Ongoing events

• 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
• Novitates Zoologicae
• Ornithologische Monatsberichte Verlag von R. Friedländer & Sohn, Berlin.1893–1938 online Zobodat
• Ornis; internationale Zeitschrift für die gesammte Ornithologie.Vienna 1885-1905online BHL
• The Auk online BHL