It's not senseless humour, Simon. It will be grist for the second
edition of Sean Dooley's A-Z tome.
On 06/03/2009, at 3:19 PM, Simon Mustoe wrote:
It's a no-brainer. A 'tick' of twitchers surely...a play on words
with the tick being an unconscious twitch as well as a new bird.
Good to see some senseless humour on the list.
Simon Mustoe.
> Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 11:16:21 +1100
> From:
> To: ;
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Collective noun for an assembledge of
twitchers
>
> 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
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> >>> 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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