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  • Of or pertaining to an avifauna.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to avifauna.

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  • adjective of or relating to birds of a particular region or period

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Examples

  • Dutch avifaunal list: species concepts, taxonomic stability, and taxonomic changes in 1998.

    Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • This ecoregion supports a high avifaunal diversity, and provides important habitat to a range of wetland birds.

    Zambezian flooded grasslands 2008

  • Due to geographic proximity and avifaunal affinity, the Ogasawaras and Iwo Islands groups were lumped into the one Ogasawara ecoregion.

    Ogasawara subtropical moist forests 2007

  • Rakata was a small island, so there could only be room for a modest amount of avifaunal diversity.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • Rakata was a small island, so there could only be room for a modest amount of avifaunal diversity.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • It is instructive to consider also the origin of avifaunal elements at the level of Family.

    Birds from Coahuila, Mexico Emil K. Urban

  • SUMMARY: This title reviews our knowledge of Britain's avifaunal history over the past 15,000 years, setting it in its wider historical and European context.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • Look at the tortuous rendering of the neck - a sure indication of avifaunal self-loathing.

    The Martha's Vineyard Times News Headlines 2009

  • It will be for readers here to decide for themselves the merits of the competing claims in this fascinating conundrum that addresses the mystery surrounding one of the greatest mammalian and avifaunal extinction events in recent geologic time, a mere 10,000-12,000 years ago, in North America.

    Anthropology.net 2009

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    Rational Review 2009

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