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· the branch of zoology...
bird scienceavian zoology
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bird study
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From New Latin ornithologia, formed from Greek ornis, genitive ornithos, 'bird,' and -logia, 'study or discourse.' The Renaissance naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi used Ornithologia as the title of his systematic work on birds, helping establish the modern scientific term.