birdlife

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noun

Birds collectively; avifauna.

“Introduction to California Birdlife describes the representative birds in California's seven major bioregions: ocean, seashore, coastal ranges, Central Valley, mountains and foothills, Great Basin, and deserts.”

Less commonScrabble 14

Meanings

nounbirdlife (uncountable)
  1. uncountableBirds collectively; avifauna.

    Introduction to California Birdlife describes the representative birds in California's seven major bioregions: ocean, seashore, coastal ranges, Central Valley, mountains and foothills, Great Basin, and deserts.

    1 more example

    The prolific bird life around the Inlet was thinning out but grey rosellas and zebras and painted finches made the bush merry[.]

    1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 202

Origin

Translations

Danish fugleliv
  • fuglelivbirds collectively
Finnish linnusto
  • linnustobirds collectively
French avifaune
  • avifaunebirds collectively
German Vogelwelt
  • Vogelweltbirds collectively
Greek ορνιθοπανίδα, πτηνοπανίδα
  • ορνιθοπανίδα (ornithopanída)birds collectively
  • πτηνοπανίδα (ptinopanída)birds collectively
Icelandic fuglalíf
  • fuglalífbirds collectively
Norwegian Bokmål fugleliv
  • fuglelivbirds collectively
Polish awifauna, ornitofauna
  • awifaunabirds collectively
  • ornitofaunabirds collectively
Spanish aves, ornitofauna
  • avesbirds collectively
  • ornitofaunabirds collectively
Swedish fågelliv
  • fågellivbirds collectively
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APA

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Chicago

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