1892 in birding and ornithology

Years in birding and ornithology:	1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895
Centuries:	18th century · 19th century · 20th century
Decades:	1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s
Years:	1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895

Birds described in 1892 include the Laysan honeycreeper, Abyssinian crimsonwing, Chatham raven, black oriole, Tullberg's woodpecker, spotted nightjar, Hose's broadbill , Bolivian earthcreeper, Chubb's cisticola, greater ground robin, streak-throated hermit, green-breasted bushshrike and the Gough moorhen.

• Foundation of the British Ornithologists' Club
• Death of Henry Walter Bates
• Ernst Hartert becomes curator of birds at the Tring Museum
• First issue of Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club online

• Henry Ogg Forbes (1892). "Preliminary notice of additions to the extinct Avifauna of New Zealand. (Abstract.)". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 24: 185–189.
• Adolphe Boucard (1892–1895). Genera of Humming Birds: Being Also a Complete Monograph of These Birds. London.
• Charles Dixon (1892). The Migration of Birds: An Attempt to Reduce Avian Season-Flight to Law. London: Chapman and Hall.
• Charles B. Cory (1892). Catalogue of West Indian Birds, Containing a List of All Species Known to Occur in the Bahama Islands, the Greater Antilles, the Caymans, and the Lesser Antilles, Excepting the Islands of Tobago and Trinidad. Boston. The author.

• Osbert Salvin and Frederick DuCane Godman (1879–1904). Biologia Centrali-Americana. Aves.
• Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1874–1898). Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum London.
• Eugene W. Oates and William Thomas Blanford (1889–1898). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Birds Volumes I–IV.
• Anton Reichenow, Bror Yngve Sjöstedt, and other members of the German Ornithologists' Society in Journal für Ornithologie.
• The Ibis
• Ornis; internationale Zeitschrift für die gesammte Ornithologie.Vienna 1885-1905online BHL
• The Auk online BHL