iduna

English

Alternative forms

  • Iduna (maintaining taxonomic capitalization)

Etymology

Borrowed from translingual Iduna.

Noun

iduna (plural idunas)

  1. (ornithology) Any warbler of the genus Iduna.
    • 2012 April 14, Yoav Perlman, “Busy busy”, in Yoav Perlman (blog)‎[1]:
      Hundreds of warblers made the mass - mainly Blackcap and Lesser Whitethroat but also quite many Reed Warblers and an assortment of other sylvias, locustellas, idunas and phyllos, plus some other bits and pieces.
    • 2016 August 26, “Focus On: Booted Warbler”, in BirdGuides‎[2]:
      Most Idunas share a rather peculiar jizz.
    • 2019, Sudhir Vyas, Indian BIRDS‎[3], Indian BIRDS Monographs, Booted Warbler Iduna caligata Passage migrant (Fairly common), page 92:
      Booted Warblers are the more northerly breeders of the two sibling Idunas.
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