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Collective noun for an assembledge of twitchers

To: Carl Clifford <>
Subject: Collective noun for an assembledge of twitchers
From: L&L Knight <>
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 11:11:43 +1000
Is a spasm of twitchers possibly a better term for the twitchers who realise that they can't get to the bird in time? It would be an interesting concept seeing that the twitchers would not be together [spatially or temporally] when they came to this realisation.

On 06/03/2009, at 11:03 AM, Carl Clifford wrote:

A Spasm of Twitchers, or a Writhing of Twitchers?

Carl Clifford

On 06/03/2009, at 11:07 AM, L&L Knight wrote:

I have had an off-line suggestion of a "twittering of twitchers" for the collective noun. While BAussers are a relatively hip group, I didn't the sort of iPhone activity that would indicate extensive twittering (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter if you are unfamiliar with a blogging phenomenon that may hit the twitching scene).

Please send your responses to the group so they can be archived for sociological posterity. [BAussers who are not interested in the subject can now delete all emails with this header].

Regards, Laurie.

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From: L&L Knight <>
Date: 6 March 2009 9:35:13 AM
To: Birding Aus <>
Subject: [Birding-Aus] Some Buffy Comments

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I don't often run into large groups of birders like that [the exceptions are tour groups, wader study groups and pelagic boatloads]. I was wondering what the appropriate collective noun is for a group of twitchers that forms in the vicinity of a rarite - perhaps in a similar manner to the way a flock of seabirds forms around a school of bait fish. Any suggestions?

Regards, Laurie.
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