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=The Life Sciences=

Anatomy

 * Anatomy

General

 * Aberrant
 * Albinism
 * Albino
 * Amoeboid
 * Anterior
 * Apical
 * Band
 * Barbule
 * Breeding plumage
 * Eclipse plumage
 * Leucism
 * Melanism
 * Morph
 * Non-breeding plumage

Internal organs

 * Air sac

Head

 * Aboral
 * Adoral
 * Auricular
 * Auricular patch
 * Baleen
 * Cere
 * Eye-stripe
 * Gape
 * Lore
 * Malar stripe
 * Moustachial stripe
 * Orbital ring
 * Submoustachial stripe
 * Supercillium

Dorsal

 * Back
 * Mantle

Ventral

 * Abdomen

Wings/arms

 * Abrasion
 * Alula
 * Arm
 * Axillaries
 * Carpal
 * Carpal bar
 * Fingers
 * Flight feather
 * Forewing
 * Hand
 * Inner wing
 * Mid-wing panel
 * Mirror
 * Outer wing
 * Panel
 * Primaries
 * Primary patch
 * Primary projection
 * Secondaries
 * Speculum
 * Tertials
 * Window
 * Wing-bar
 * Wing-bend
 * Wing-panel
 * Wing projection
 * Wingspan

Legs/feet

 * Foot projection
 * Tibia

Tail

 * Tail-streamer

Biochemistry
See under Chemistry

Biogeography

 * Abyssopelagic
 * Americas
 * Palearctic
 * Taiga

Taxonomy

 * Commic terns
 * Conspecific
 * Family
 * Genus
 * Hybrid
 * Infraorder
 * Monotypic
 * Nominate subspecies
 * Non-passerine
 * Order
 * Parvorder
 * Polytypic
 * Race - another word for subspecies.
 * Species (sp. or spp. [plural])
 * Subspecies (ssp.)
 * Superfamily
 * Variety

Evolution

 * Adaptive radiation
 * Allopatric
 * Apomorphy
 * Cline
 * Isolating mechanism
 * Relict population

Diseases

 * Avian influenza

Anatomy

 * Appressorium

General

 * Abmigration
 * Accidental
 * Aerial
 * Allopreening
 * Anting
 * Arboreal
 * Hover
 * Pelagic

Calls/sounds

 * Alarm call
 * Antiphonal song

Feeding

 * Ant-follower

Breeding

 * Ansynchronous hatching

Physiology

 * Aestivation

Ecology

 * Amphitrophic
 * Anoxic
 * Aquatic
 * Habitat

Developmental biology

 * Abrasion
 * Adult
 * Adult plumage
 * Altricial
 * First autumn
 * First summer
 * First winter
 * Immature
 * Juvenile
 * Moult/Moulting
 * Post-juvenile
 * Subadult
 * Young

Animal architecture

 * Aerie

Museum-related

 * Acquisition

=The Formal Sciences=

Mathematics

 * Addition
 * Division
 * Multiplication
 * Subtraction

=The Physical Sciences=

Astronomy

 * Asterism
 * Asteroid
 * Atmosphere
 * Aurora
 * Barnard
 * Big Bang
 * Earth
 * Equator
 * Gravitational lens
 * Herbig-Haro object
 * Kepler-22b
 * Light-year
 * Northern Hemisphere
 * Plasma
 * Pulsar
 * Solar flare
 * Solar System
 * Southern Hemisphere
 * Tropics
 * White dwarf
 * Zenith

Physics

 * Airfoil

States of matter

 * Gas
 * Liquid
 * Plasma
 * Solid

Biochemistry

 * Amino acid

Elements

 * Argon

Meteorology

 * Atmosphere
 * Aurora