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Three people birdwatching with binoculars. Birdwatching, or birding, is the observing of birds, either as a recreational activity or as a form of citizen science.A birdwatcher may observe by using their naked eye, by using a visual enhancement device such as binoculars or a telescope, by listening for bird sounds, [1] [2] watching public webcams, or by viewing smart bird feeder cameras.
Bay Stater (official term used by state government) and Citizen of the Commonwealth (identifier used in state law) [31] Massachusettsian, [ 32 ] Massachusite, [ 33 ] [ 34 ] Masshole (derogatory [ 35 ] as an exonym ; however, it can be affectionate when applied as an endonym [ 36 ] )
The IOS has a standing committee (the Illinois Ornithological Records Committee), founded in 1985, which evaluates the evidence for records of birds that are rare or unusual in the state, and which is responsible for publishing and maintaining the official checklist of Illinois birds. [3]
Around 96 million people across the U.S. – or 3 in 10 Americans – engage in bird watching, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.Roughly 95% of those birders do so from the comfort ...
The Bird Banding Laboratory codes first appeared in published form in 1978, [1] and their use gradually spread from bird banders to ornithologists and birdwatchers. The Institute for Bird Populations codes were created in 2003 [2] with the goal of addressing shortcomings of the BBL codes: The BBL codes omit some birds, notably Galliformes. The ...
A 2019 research article from the journal Science drew from several long-term datasets to find that the number of birds in the United States and Canada had fallen by nearly 3 billion since 1970, a ...
Twitchers watching a mega—Britain's fifth-ever white-tailed lapwing—and probably adding a lifer to their list; see text for explanation of italicised terms. Twitchers' vocabulary is the set of jargon words used by twitchers (committed birdwatchers who travel long distances to see a new species to add a species to their "life list", year list or other list).
First are listed birdwatchers with large life lists, which is based on the number of species of birds each of them has/had seen. Depending on the taxonomic viewpoint, there are 10,858 ( Clements V2023 ) or 11,032 ( IOC ver. 14.1 ) living bird species recognised.