Avifauna Definition

āvə-fônə, ăvə-
noun
The birds of a specific region or period.
American Heritage
The birds of a specified region or time.
Webster's New World

The birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting a region.

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Other Word Forms of Avifauna

Noun

Singular:
avifauna
Plural:
avifaunae, avifaunas

Origin of Avifauna

  • New Latin, from Latin avis (“bird”) + New Latin fauna (“animals”), from Latin Faunus (“god of herdsmen”)

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin avis bird awi- in Indo-European roots fauna

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Avifauna Sentence Examples

  • In 1873 Elwes pointed out that the Himalayan avifauna extended into north-west China and established the Himalo-Chinese sub-region.

  • A similarly mixed avifauna has been found in the mid-Miocene beds of various other parts of France, Germany and Italy.

  • Here may be interpolated a short account of the very peculiar avifauna found in the Tertiary strata of Santa Cruz in Patagonia.

  • The main affinities of the avifauna are, of course, Australian.

  • Most interesting is the avifauna of the Sandwich islands; entirely devoid of Psittaci and of Coraciiformes, these islands show an extraordinary development of its peculiar family Drepanidae, which are probably of South or Central American descent.

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Words Starting With

AAVAVI

Words Ending With

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Words Starting With A and Ending With A

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