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Ornithology

noun

The branch of zoology that studies birds.

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"Ornithology" Quotes from Famous Books

... Dr. G. Hartlaub "On the Avifauna of Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands," see "The Ibis," a Quarterly Journal of Ornithology. Fourth Series, Vol. i., ...

— The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria • W. Scott-Elliot

... took up the notion of making a study of ornithology, incited to it possibly by the great number of bright-colored birds that made their winter homes along the Rio Grande, and I spent many a leisure hour in catching specimens by means of stick traps, with which I found ...

— Memoirs of Three Civil War Generals, Complete • U. S. Grant, W. T. Sherman, P. H. Sheridan

... the student of ornithology can least afford to lose. Most birds are nesting then, and in full song and plumage. And what is a bird without its song? Do we not wait for the stranger to speak? It seems to me that I do not know a bird till ...

— In the Catskills • John Burroughs

Words linked to "Ornithology" : zoological science, ornithological, ornithologist, Aves, class Aves, zoology