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ornithology

[ awr-nuh-thol-uh-jee ]

noun

  1. the branch of zoology that deals with birds.


ornithology

/ ˌɔːnɪθəˈlɒdʒɪkəl; ˌɔːnɪˈθɒlədʒɪ /

noun

  1. the study of birds, including their physiology, classification, ecology, and behaviour
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ornithology

/ ôr′nə-thŏlə-jē /

  1. The scientific study of birds.


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Derived Forms

  • ˌorniˈthologist, noun
  • ornithological, adjective
  • ˌornithoˈlogically, adverb
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Other Words From

  • or·ni·tho·log·i·cal [awr-n, uh, -th, uh, -, loj, -i-k, uh, l], orni·tho·logic adjective
  • orni·tho·logi·cal·ly adverb
  • orni·tholo·gist noun
  • unor·ni·tho·logi·cal adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ornithology1

From the New Latin word ornithologia, dating back to 1645–55. See ornitho-, -logy
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Example Sentences

They decided to examine bird sightings from across the United States and Canada that volunteers had recorded in eBird, an online database run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

If these colors in females were driven by mate choice, then this is “the exact opposite of what you would expect,” says Falk, who did the work while at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Gamboa.

Novice birders contributed to a new record for spotting bird species on Global Big Day, an annual bird-watching event run by the eBird program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

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I took ornithology in college, did my master’s on birds, and I never got that information.

A team at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology created the platform in 2002, and it became widely used by birders within a few years.

We were enthusiasts in our love for ornithology; we found new inspiration in the democracy of our common interests.

If we could not make occasional swans of our geese in this life, we should be very ill off in matters of ornithology.

Ornithology was especially interesting, combining as it did observation of birds in their natural haunts and conditions.

For more than forty years he studied the ornithology of his district without exhausting the subject.

His leisure was devoted to scientific study, especially the ornithology, ichthyology, and anthropology of the West Indies.

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