birding

[ bur-ding ]

noun

1. the identification and observation of wild birds in their natural habitat as a recreation; bird-watching.

birding

/ ˈbɜːdɪŋ /

noun

1. See bird-watching
   another name for bird-watching

Derived Forms

• ˈbirder, noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of birding¹

1560–70 for earlier sense “hunting birds”; bird + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

They then got 180 members of the birding and ornithology communities to sign it.

From Outside Online

Environmental racism can be virulent and blatant, but it also shows up more subtly in assumptions about who is considered outdoorsy, who gets to make decisions about land use, and who gets to safely go birding and biking.

From Outside Online

On a typical day birding in Atlanta, Ward sees more than 40 species.

From Washington Post

I use eBird almost daily for everything from tracking how far I walk while scanning treetops, to planning vacation birding spots, to scouting remote Andean field sites for my doctoral work.

From Outside Online

The doctor and naturalist would pull up to plantations in Georgia and Alabama and tell the owners that he wanted to conduct ornithological surveys on their properties—and it’s possible he did do a bit of birding while he was there.

From Popular-Science

Social scientists have studied what draws a person to birding, and there are differing schools of thought.

From The Daily Beast

A picture of Phoebe was taken not long after she started birding, maybe by Dave.

From The Daily Beast

A Birding thus early, what forbidden Game rouz'd you so soon?

From Project Gutenberg

You send small ships out among the islands to pick up the men, and the business is called ‘black-birding,’ is it not?

From Project Gutenberg

“Black-birding,” along in the seventies, was an outrageous piece of business no better than slave-stealing on the coast of Africa.

From Project Gutenberg

The matter became so notorious that the government investigated it and put a stop to ‘black-birding.’

From Project Gutenberg

Do you think your birding-piece can touch me here away, Master Tummas?

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