1716 – Peter the Great purchases the natural history collection of Albertus Seba.1715 – Levinus Vincent publishes Wondertooneel der Nature the Wonder Theater of Nature.1713 – Death of the collector Johan de la Faille.1710 – Osservatorio Ornitologico di Arosio established.1702 – Ferdinand Johann Adam von Pernau publishes a popular pioneering essay on bird behaviour.1681 – The last dodo dies on the island of Mauritius.This is considered the beginning of scientific ornithology in Europe, revolutionizing ornithological taxonomy by organizing species according to their physical characteristics 1676 – Publication of Francis Willughby's Ornithologia by his collaborator John Ray.1667 – Christopher Merrett publishes the first fauna of Great Britain, followed two years later by that of Walter Charleton.1657 – Publication of Historiae naturalis de avibus by John Jonston.This collection comprises many birds but the techniques of conservation are not successful and they are quickly destroyed by insects. 1655 – Ole Worm collects a famous cabinet of curiosities whose illustrated inventory appears in 1655, Museum Wormianum.It is the oldest continuously existing learned society in the world. 1652 – Leopoldina founded in the Holy Roman Empire.1638 – Georg Marcgraf begins a voyage to Brazil where he studies the fauna and flora.1609 – The illustrated Sancai Tuhui, a Chinese encyclopedia by Wang Qi & Wang Siyi, lists a total of 113 species of bird.1605 – Clusius publishes Exoticorum libri decem ("Ten books of exotics") in which he describes many new exotic species.1603 – Caspar Schwenckfeld publishes the first regional fauna of Europe: Therio-tropheum Silesiae.1599 – Beginning of the publication of the works of Ulisse Aldrovandi on birds.1596 – The Compendium of Chinese Materia Medica by Li Shizhen includes a total of 77 species of bird.
1591 – Joris Hoefnagel starts to work for Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor and produces for him 90 oil-base paintings, of which one is of the dodo.1573 – Volcher Coiter publishes his first treatise on bird anatomy.Belon lists birds according to a definite system