(1) Obviously intelligent and resourceful, Jonathan (rank unknown) is taking full advantage of his deployment to add all kinds of exciting Arabian avifauna to his life list.(2) I am not familiar with the highland avifauna(3) In describing warblers, as I do so lovingly, one can draw upon words like avifauna , avians, birds, songbirds, beautiful birds, and, of course, warblers.(4) In taxonomic composition, the Amboseli avifauna is dominated by ostriches.(5) There is a useful and concise introduction to the area, its bird habitats and avifauna , and a list of abbreviations and symbols used in the text.(6) Besides a Downy Woodpecker here and a Tufted Titmouse there, avifauna was all but absent.(7) All other ecological attributes of the Amboseli avifaunal remains are affected to some extent by this size bias, in that attributes of larger species tend to dominate results for diet, habitat, and social structure.(8) Some changes in avifaunal composition and distribution in Switzerland, reflecting recent trends in distribution of birds in central Europe, are notable.(9) The results of this study indicate that fossil avifaunal remains deserve more serious attention as a source of information about taphonomy and paleoecology.(10) Thus, although we have made a case for a general level of ecological fidelity in the small Amboseli avifaunal sample, it is clear that such samples can easily omit species that bear important ecological information.(11) In this paper, we examine the taphonomy of a modern avian bone assemblage and test the relationship between ecological data based on avifaunal skeletal remains and known ecological attributes of a living bird community.
