Thank you for your wonderful newsletter. Not important, but the preferred term for a bird watcher in the UK (like me) is just bird watcher, or sometimes birder for people who are more serious about it. Twitcher is specifically for bird watchers who travel long distances for specific rare sightings. Your Wikipedia link (sort of) explains this. I have a life list, and visit reserves fairly regularly, but wouldn't call myself a 'birder', and certainly not a 'twitcher'.
Okay, duly noted! My friend the Bristol native living in Austin sent me a hilarious text about being startled while walking her dog by the sudden screams of "PILEATED" from what she called "the twitchers" as if I would know. Thanks for providing more context.
The link didn't work for the Judith Butler piece, but I found it and thought I'd share it here. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n06/judith-butler/this-is-wrong
Excellent and thought-provoking piece as usual.
Thanks for letting me know! Fixed it and appreciate the heads up.
Thank you for your wonderful newsletter. Not important, but the preferred term for a bird watcher in the UK (like me) is just bird watcher, or sometimes birder for people who are more serious about it. Twitcher is specifically for bird watchers who travel long distances for specific rare sightings. Your Wikipedia link (sort of) explains this. I have a life list, and visit reserves fairly regularly, but wouldn't call myself a 'birder', and certainly not a 'twitcher'.
Okay, duly noted! My friend the Bristol native living in Austin sent me a hilarious text about being startled while walking her dog by the sudden screams of "PILEATED" from what she called "the twitchers" as if I would know. Thanks for providing more context.