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Collective noun for an assembledge of twitchers

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Subject: Collective noun for an assembledge of twitchers
From: L&L Knight <>
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 13:34:08 +1000
Interesting. Is there a Latin version of "twitchers" that you could insert to make a wholly Latin phrase?


On 06/03/2009, at 1:18 PM, Ian May wrote:

mobile vulgus of twitchers

Latin phrase meaning "the easily moveable crowd," from which the term "mob" originally derives.







L&L Knight wrote:

I've received on off-line suggestion of "a tic(k) of twitchers". This combines the nervous behaviour [tic] with the activity of ticking. There is also a social dimension in that twitchers get to meet one another and hence add ticks to the list of twitchers they have seen/met.

LK


On 06/03/2009, at 10:16 AM, John Harris wrote:

Not sure that I speak for all those that were not able to make it to Bundy but how about the collective "B*stard Birders", or "Birding Buff's" - a play on words of course, "a gaggle of grippers", "Bundy Buggers"......... the list would go on.


Yours in all things "green"

Regards

John Harris
President, Victorian Association for Environmental Education (VAEE)
Manager, Environment and Sustainability
Donvale Christian College
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0409 090 955



>>> L&L Knight <> 6/03/2009 11:07 am >>>
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).

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].

Regards, Laurie.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: L&L Knight <>
> Date: 6 March 2009 9:35:13 AM
> To: Birding Aus <>
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Some Buffy Comments
>
> <snip>
>
> 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 is
> 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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