bird species

Kind of fowl

A bird species is a distinct type of bird recognized as a breeding population that doesn't normally interbreed with other such populations.

Ornithologists have identified roughly ten thousand bird species worldwide.

The term appears in scientific and conservation contexts: Several bird species in the region are endangered, The island hosts over two hundred bird species.

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