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little brown job

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  • noun birdwatching One of any number of small, nondescript, sparrow-like bird species that are very hard to tell apart.

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  • Also "LBJ." A "generic term for a bird or a group of birds that birders either can’t--or won’t--identify. One of the most perfectly descriptive of all birding terms . . . an 'LBJ' is just that: a 'little brown job,' or any small, brown, unremarkable bird that you either see well and can’t identify, see poorly and can’t identify, or see but have more to do with your life than worry about the identification of every small brown bird that crosses your path."

    --from the 10000birds blog

    December 4, 2007

  • Despite not having a list for it, this is one of my favourite words (and citations) on Wordie.

    November 13, 2008