How about an "irrupt of twitchers", from the definition irruption: "To
increase rapidly and irregularly in number"
Andrew Bell
> 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.
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>> 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
>>>> 155 Tindals Rd Donvale 3111
>>>> 03 9844 2471 Ext 217
>>>> 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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