Collective noun for an assembledge of twitchers

[L&L Knight <>]

Good point.  Before people start to make gender based comments I  
should point out that there were more than a couple of female birders  
present.
On 06/03/2009, at 11:07 AM, inger vandyke wrote:

> a grip of twitchers?  a bevy of birdos?
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> > From: 
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> > Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Collective noun for an assembledge of  
> twitchers
> > Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 12:03:13 +1100
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> > A Spasm of Twitchers, or a Writhing of Twitchers?
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> > Carl Clifford
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> > On 06/03/2009, at 11:07 AM, L&L Knight wrote:
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> > 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).
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> > 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].
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> > Regards, Laurie.
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> > Begin forwarded message:
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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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> > > <snip>
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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  
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> > > 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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