The realm, domain, or world of birds; birds collectively as a group or kingdom.
'Bird' plus the suffix '-dom' (meaning realm or domain), similar to 'kingdom' or 'Christendom.' It's a poetic or literary formation used to refer to the bird world as a unified entity.
Literary terms like 'birddom' reveal how humans imagine non-human worlds—by using '-dom' we're unconsciously projecting our own political structures onto birds, imagining they have kingdoms and realms when really we're just trying to make the natural world feel more familiar and understandable.
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