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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of bird.

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Examples

  • On the way back to the gatehouse I birded the birders at Stage Island Pool but since none of them were looking through their scopes and some were sitting listlessly on rocks, I intuited that the gull-billed tern was not present.

    seagoing sparrow, talkative visitor, new lock, nice weather, oh my 2008

  • On the way back to the gatehouse I birded the birders at Stage Island Pool but since none of them were looking through their scopes and some were sitting listlessly on rocks, I intuited that the gull-billed tern was not present.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • He finished up in a red-birded helmet, playing in a half-filled stadium in the sweltering Arizona desert.

    USATODAY.com - No return of the king: Emmitt Smith retires 2005

  • I birded up there with a guy from Sydney until it was too dark to see any more.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Glenda Larke 2007

  • The article notes that the Carter's "have birded in 25 countries, including Nepal, Japan, the Philippines, China, and recently Bolivia," and boast a very respectful life-list total of about 1,155 species.

    Jimmy Carter—Celebrity Birder John L. Trapp 2006

  • Woods indeed birded Nos. 12 and 13, sending a tremor of hope across Tulsa.

    USATODAY.com - No eye of the Tiger in Oklahoma heat 2001

  • Basically, I birded four distinct areas: 1. Daily walks in Riverside Park RP, an urban park bordering the Mississippi River in downtown La Crosse.

    BIRDS ETCETERA—Birds, Birding, Birders, and Birdwatching John L. Trapp 2002

  • Basically, I birded four distinct areas: 1. Daily walks in Riverside Park RP, an urban park bordering the Mississippi River in downtown La Crosse.

    Archive 2002-11-01 John L. Trapp 2002

  • There was no pony, no grass, no flowers, no bright-birded forest -- but the cottage of the wise woman -- and before her, on the hearth of it, the goddess-child, the only thing unchanged.

    A Double Story George MacDonald 1864

  • From that tree-top, what birded chimes of silver throats had rung.

    The Piazza Tales Herman Melville 1855

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