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.

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avifauna British  

/ ˌeɪvɪˈfɔːnə /

noun

1. all the birds in a particular region

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Other Word Forms

• avifaunal adjective
• avifaunally adverb

Etymology

Origin of avifauna

First recorded in 1870–75; avi- + fauna

Example Sentences

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 Tinamous constitute one of the most singular and characteristic types of the Neotropical avifauna.

From Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)