ornithology

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the branch of zoology concerned with the scientific study of birds

   Her research in ornithology focuses on how migratory birds navigate at night.

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.

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