Ornithology

Definitions

The branch of zoology that deals with the scientific study of birds.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Gesner says in his Ornithology, that this fact was attested by a great many moderns of his own⟳ time, and he even quotes Albert the great, who asserts that he has seen a cock foster chickens.”

“Jerome A. Jackson, an ivory bill specialist at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, has now increased the intensity of the discussion in a 15-page article in the current issue⟳ of The Auk, a quarterly ornithology journal published by the American Ornithologists' Union.”

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