And if the bird has not been "previously located" (which I guess means you
are the guy who found it!) then you are not twitching?
2008/5/14 Peter Shute <>:
> It says: "Twitching is a British term, meaning "the observation of a
> previously located rare bird".
>
> If it only covers rare birds, then does that mean that a new birder,
> going to great extremes to see previously located new birds that are
> quite common, doesn't become a twitcher until he has run out of common
> birds and starts on the rare ones?
>
> Peter Shute
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Torr
> Sent: Wednesday, 14 May 2008 4:11 PM
> To: Peter Shute
> Cc: Lawrie Conole; Birding Aus
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] re: blog for birding aus - birders behaving
> badly
>
>
> 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?
>
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