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- noun Plural form of
birdwatcher .
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Examples
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Armed with high-powered binoculars and guidebooks, the birdwatchers were a particularly hardy breed, sometimes picking out distant birds that the guides had missed.
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“They’re probably birdwatchers from the National Geographic channel,” said S-2.
Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010
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“They’re probably birdwatchers from the National Geographic channel,” said S-2.
Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010
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Some online environmental monitoring networks already exist, such as birdwatchers recording sightings.
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The link between birds and dinosaurs has long been known, but recent fossil finds in China's Yixian province—an astonishing number in the last decade by the great paleontologist Xing Xu—have started turning birdwatchers into dinosaur watchers, waiting to see what new feathered species will be exhumed next.
Flocking Together Jonathan Rosen 2011
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But like all true birdwatchers, Mr. Hanson knows it isn't just the bird at the far end of the binoculars but the human being at the near end that matters, and he is writing as much about the human urge to understand, appreciate and appropriate the wild world as he is writing about feathers, which he calls, in his subtitle, a "natural miracle."
Flocking Together Jonathan Rosen 2011
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The attacks, the crazy gun-toting ‘birdwatchers,’ the camera crews?
How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011
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All I know is this, most hunting related injuries occur among hunters, not hunters and birdwatchers and bike riders.
On Sunday Bowhunting 2009
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Half a million birdwatchers, countless birds, and one raccoon: the highlights of the RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch
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Apparently we have a lot of amateur birdwatchers here.
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