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> From: "Bill Jolly" <>
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> Subject: Re: What's in a term?
> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 16:13:38 +1000
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> This hasn't got through to birding-aus twice already this-morning. I=20=
Sender:
X-Loop:
Precedence: bulk
> think
> I've worked out why, and I've modified some spacing appropriately.
> Let's see
> if it makes it this time!
>
>
>
> Hi Myles
>
> I reckon a good starting point would be "Bill Oddie's Little Black =
Bird
> Book" with several particularly pertinent chapters such as:
>
> Chapter 2 - What Am I? What are you? - which includes a glossary of
> twitching terms;
>
> Chapter 3 - Equipment & Clothing - A field Guide to bird-watchers;
>
> [Most of us know just a few of our fellow-correspondents on
> birding-aus, but
> have only our self-generated images of what might lie behind most of=20=
> the
> familiar names. However, pretty well everyone you'll correspond with=20=
> through
> this forum will be found described in this expos=E9 - a lot of fun is =
to
> be
> had trying to work out which is which!]
>
> Chapter 5 - Covering the c o c k-up - including the well-used =
"two-bird
> theory";
>
> Chapter 12 - On being a bird person - including "Dealing with jokers".
>
> And more, such as Fooling the Committee, and so on.
>
> Yes, I think 'birders' is probably the favoured word hereabouts. Some=20=
> feel
> that 'bird-watcher' can conjour an image of absent-mined tweedy people
> nattering on about feathered-friends; Bill Oddie has a lot to say =
about
> 'bird-spotters'; there has been a lot of debate about whether
> 'twitcher' is
> just a pejorative term used by the 'more serious birder' about the =
more
> trivial collectors of ticks. As for ornithologist, that's described in=20=
> the
> book as 'dangerous'!
>
> It was originally published by Eyre Methuen in 1980, but I've no doubt=20=
> a
> search will find more recent editions around the place.
>
> If in doubt about anything, do please toss the occasional term up on=20=
> the
> list for everyone to have a gnaw at. We might discover that
> Queenslanders
> and South Australians are talking a different language!
>
> Welcome aboard!
>
> Bill Jolly
>
> "Abberton",
> Lockyer Valley, Queensland.
>
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