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

However, the Messel avifauna includes many extinct groups without close living relatives or with unknown affinities, such as the long-legged and flightless Palaeotis weigelti, the aptly named Perplexicervix microcephalon, and the small, presumably nectarivorous, Pumiliornis.

From The Guardian • May 18, 2016

North America’s avifauna may well become more diverse.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 30, 2015

The avifauna of Borneo is of Indo-Malayan affinities.

From Birds from North Borneo University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, Volume 17, No. 8, pp. 377-433, October 27, 1966 by Thompson, Max C.