Wikipedia has a definition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitcher#Twitching.
5000 people at one twitch in the UK! I think the derogatory connotations
come in when some birders seem concerned ONLY to get a new bird rather than
enjoying all birds.
2008/5/14 Peter Shute <>:
> I agree, and I wonder if perhaps we automatically assume that any birder
> behaving "badly" is a twitcher. Given that there's at least a little
> bit of twitcher in all(?) birders it's probably a bit difficult to tell
> if someone is one just by looking at them.
>
> So perhaps this blaming of twitchers is counter productive - it may
> allow badly behaved non-twitchers to continue their behaviour, perhaps
> without realising. But then again, some have indicated that bad
> behaviour isn't that wide spread anyway.
>
> Personally, I've occasionally wondered if I got a bit too close or
> stayed a bit long, or whether the bird flew because of me or would have
> flown anyway. We can only work out the safe limits by trial and error.
>
> How do you define a twitcher anyway? By the distance they're prepared
> to go or the amount of money they're prepared to spend to see new birds?
> By the amount of time they spend looking at them when they do see them?
> By the time it takes them to get to a recent sighting?
>
> Peter Shute
>
> wrote on Wednesday, 14 May 2008 3:06
> PM:
>
> > Twitching isn't the real issue - birders behaving badly,
> > whether twitching or not, is.
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