iduna

English

Iduna caligata.

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.