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avifauna

American  
[ey-vuh-faw-nuh, av-uh] / ˌeɪ vəˈfɔ nə, ˌæv ə /

noun

  1. the birds of a given region, considered as a whole.


avifauna British  
/ ˌeɪvɪˈfɔːnə /

noun

  1. all the birds in a particular region

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Origin of avifauna

First recorded in 1870–75; avi- + fauna

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Dr Manish Chandi, a social ecologist, says the project will also affect saltwater crocodiles and the island’s water monitors, fish and avifauna.

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2024

That group is effectively a death squad for songbirds, killing an estimated 4 billion US avifauna a year; globally, island cats drive 14% of vertebrate extinctions.

From Nature • Oct. 11, 2016

North America’s avifauna may well become more diverse.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 30, 2015

It's certainly not just a modern love affair: Aldous Huxley once claimed that if you took the avifauna out of English verse you would have to dispose of half the poetic canon.

From The Guardian • Jul. 27, 2013

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

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various

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