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Twitchers' vocabulary is the set of jargon words used by twitchers. Twitchers are committed bird-watchers who travel long distances to see a new species just to add a species their "lifelist", "year list" or other lists. Some terms may be specific to regional birding communities, and not all are used due to dialectic and cultural differences.〔Anon. 2008. "The A to Z of birding." Australian Geographic 90: 104-105.〕 == Terms == * To ''burn up'' or ''flog'': To beat around in the undergrowth hoping to flush a bird. A desperate measure and not a kind way to treat an exhausted migrant. * ''Mega'' or ''Megatick'':〔 A very rare bird * ''Chooks'': already seen or common birds (used in Australia).〔 * ''Crippler'': A rare and spectacular bird that shows brilliantly, perhaps an allusion towards its preventing people from moving on. * To ''dip out'' (or ''dip''): To miss seeing a bird which you were looking for. * ''Dude'': "A posh bird-watcher who doesn't really know all that much about birds."〔 A novice birdwatcher; slightly pejorative term. Also used to refer to someone who primarily seeks out birds for photography rather than study.〔 * ''First'':〔 A first record of a species (in a defined area, such as a county first). * To ''grip off'' (or ''grip''):〔 To see a bird which another birder missed and to tell them you've seen it. * ''Jizz'': the overall impression given by the general shape, movement, behaviour, etc., of a species rather than any particular feature. Experienced birders can often identify species, even with only fleeting or distant views, on jizz alone. * ''Lifer'':〔 A first-ever sighting of a bird species by an observer; an addition to one's ''life list''. * ''List'': * * Noun: a list of all species seen by a particular observer (often qualified, e.g. ''life list'', ''county list'', ''year list'', etc.). Keen twitchers may keep several lists, and some listers compete to amass longer lists than their rivals. * *Verb: to keep or compile a bird list (''lister'' is close in meaning to ''twitcher''). *''Plastic'': Adjective used to indicate a bird which has escaped from captivity, rather than a genuinely wild bird. * ''Sibe'':〔 A bird from Siberia (usually applied to rare migrants). * ''String'': * *Noun: A dubious, "ropy" record. * *Adjective: ''Stringy''〔 * *Verb: to claim such a record.〔 * ''Tick'':〔 An addition to a personal list (sometimes qualified as ''year tick'', ''county tick'', etc.). ''Life tick'' and ''lifer'' are synonymous. A ''tart's tick'' is a relatively common species added to one's list later than might be expected. * ''Yank'': A bird from North America (usually applied to rare migrants). Some species have nicknames, for example: "''RB Flicker''" for Red-breasted Flycatcher, "''Gropper''" for Grasshopper Warbler, "''PG Tips''" for Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler. Twitchers (and birders in general) will also use a mixture of scientific and slang terms for feather tracts and so on. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Twitchers' vocabulary」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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