1832 in birding and ornithology
- Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. This included fifty-six birds new to science, including the Indian pond heron.
- Édouard Ménétries describes Sylvia mystacea now known as Menetries's warbler
- René Primevère Lessoncommences Illustrations de Zoologie (1832–35)
- Johann Georg Wagler moves the northern bald ibis to a new genus Geronticus (from the genus Upupa Carl Linnaeus, 1758)
- Death of Georges Cuvier
- Death of Karl Rudolphi
- Death of Louis Dufresne
- Charles Lucien Bonaparte commences Iconografia della Fauna Italica (1832–1841)
- The Reverend John Bachman, who presented study skins and descriptions to his friend and collaborator John James Audubon, discovers Bachman's warbler.
- Foundation of Muséum d'histoire naturelle de La Rochelle