Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The birds of a specific region or period.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A collective name for the birds of any given locality or geographical area; the fauna of a region or district so far as concerns birds.
- noun A treatise upon the birds of a given region.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting a region.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
birds , or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting a region.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the birds of a particular region or period
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The avifauna is very diverse, reflecting the diversity of topographic and climatic conditions and a number of rare and endemic bird species occur, especially in the various types of forest. 72 species have been recorded as resident, but this must be a small proportion of what may exist on site.
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire 2008
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The avifauna is well represented in the area with more 500 species.
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The avifauna is the most diverse of any area in Australia, 270 species having been recorded.
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The native avifauna includes 57 residents, of which 28 (49%) are endemic and 31 are regular migrants; a number of vagrants are also present.
Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador 2009
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A preliminary list of the avifauna gives 224 species including 42 endemics, 75% of the endemic species of the Central Highlands.
Kahuzi-Biéga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo 2009
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Most lowland wet forest parks are too small and isolated to maintain viable populations of large-ranging species; the only one connected to highland forest is La Selva in Costa Rica (just over 1,700 ha), which is too small to protect much of the avifauna and other larger taxa.
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Similarly, over half the avifauna of the highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama is endemic to this region.
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Extremely rich in both species richness and endemism, this region serves as an important migration point for many avifauna species.
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The Caribbean slope is a major migration route; neotropical and altitudinal migrants comprise about 30% of the avifauna, particularly against the foothills.
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