Talk:Birdwatching
From Academic Kids
Hello there. I just wondered if twitching ought to have its own seperate page. I know that birders/birdwatchers and twitchers overlap but "pure" twitchers who travel from one end of the country to another to look at a rare bird are very different to both your usual casual or conservation minded survey making/patch watching type of birdwatcher. I don't know if it's the same in America but twitchers in Britain have their own quite specialised lingo with terms like "Dip out, grip off, dude, sibe, string etc", in fact, thinking about it I'm going to include a link to a little page on the matter. Andrew F. 15:17, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I added a few sentences on competitive birding and moved the sentence about "quieter and more relaxed" to go with it.
I also changed the paragraph about censuses to reflect the sort of census I participated in last Sunday and will again this Sunday, which is not limited to a single species. I also reworded the last sentence of that paragraph a little.
My first attempt at Wikipedia. Please let me know how I can improve.
JerryFriedman
- Did you remember to save your changes? :-( BTW, you can sign your articles with ~~~~ (four tildes), and your name, with alink, and date will appear automagically, like this: Andy Mabbett 10:25, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)
I sure as heck *thought* I remembered! :-( is right. But I just did a minor edit here and one at National Audubon Society, and those worked, so I'm going to try again with competitive birding. Thanks for the feedback--it's nice not to be shouting into the void. And thanks for the tilde tip.
JerryFriedman 16:40, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Back again. Changes made as above. It feels much better when it works.
And "shouting into the void" wasn't the best choice of words. It's nice not to be zigzagging my way through the boredom and pain, occasionally glancing up through the rain.
Suggestions are still appreciated.
JerryFriedman 16:53, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)
I appreciate the improvements that people have made. (And I'm embarrassed that I got the name of the ABA wrong, since I'm a member. I might have noticed it when I wrote the first draft of the article on the ABA, which I've now done).
I disagree with the hyphen in "commonly-used", but I don't want to get into a "reversion war" over such a minor thing. How are such disputes resolved around here? My suggestion would to ask in alt.usage.english, where I'm a regular (so I would ask in an NPOV way).
JerryFriedman 21:01, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)
- Hi Jerry. For a minor change like that, either flag it up here, as you have done, and see what happens, or just make the change and see if there is any comeback. The only thing to watch, as I'm sure you know, is that you don't change American to rest-of-the-World usage or visa vers. Then the skies really do open! jimfbleak 06:42, 7 Jan 2004 (UTC)
...presumably because Americans outnumber the rest of the world?
Could there be something about photography here as well? --blades 10:29, 30 May 2004 (UTC)
Birding is what birds do, surely?
