Russell, thanks very much for this. And thanks to all who responded to my
query.
Regards
Denise
on 29/9/11 10:42 AM, at
wrote:
> The Australian Digital Newspaper Archive has no record of "birdwatcher",
> "birdwatching" or "bird-watching" until about 1904. I found quite a few
> records during the 1890s for the search "birdwatcher" - but these all
> turned out to be OCR misreadings of the name of a racehorse, Birdcatcher!
>
> From 1904, articles about bird-watching appeared quite regularly in
> various newspapers.
>
> Russell
>
> On Tue, September 27, 2011 1:04 pm, Andrew Taylor wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 03:30:20AM +0930, Denise Goodfellow wrote:
>>> Good morning all
>>> ³Birdwatching², according to Wikipedia was a term first used in 1918,
>>> but I
>>> cannot find an original reference. Does anybody out there know?
>>
>> The phrase "bird watching" appears to have had little or no use in print
>> until Edmund Selous's 1901 book of that title.
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Selous
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