Hi Evelyn,
It's remind me the way i started. Every time i went on a Fieldtrip with
the Audubon i was alway on the end of the group. I was to scared to let
birders know, that i could not identify any birds This was in 1986 when i
started.But i din't give up and kept going almost every day close by to
looking for Birds. So there isn't a name what other than you are a
BIRDER, What love this hobby .I hear this word all the time "Oh she or he
are Beginners. Dont forget we all started sometime in the past. I WILL
NEVER FORGET THAT TIME.
Ruth Sullivan----------
> From: Evelyn Plamondon <eplamond at cs.clark.edu>
> To: S&C Richardson <salix at halcyon.com>
> Cc: tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: Twitchers
> Date: Wednesday, October 21, 1998 2:44 PM
>
> Hi,
> I'm curious. Do you have a name for those of us who are still trying to
> sort out one kind of bird from another? I don't know enough to list
> anything yet,
> so I don't consider myself a birder. I watch them, but in a confused way
I
> guess.
>
> "Rank amateur" maybe. I have enjoyed reading this list for about a year,
> and appreciate the information about what others have seen in my area. It
> helps me "guess."
>
> Evelyn Plamondon
> Clark College, Vancouver, WA
> eplamond at cs.clark.edu
>
>
> --There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know
> nothing about--
>
>
> On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, S&C Richardson wrote:
>
> > > How about--Hello my name is______ and I am a Amateur Field
Ornithologist.
> >
> > I can't believe I'm getting wound up in this thread...
> >
> > Birdwatcher, birder, and ornithologist. Label yourselves as you will,
but make
> > the label meaningful.
> > Not all birders (the watching kind) are ornithologists and not all
> > ornithologists are birders.
> > You want to spend more time explaining than birding? Tell someone
you're an
> > orthinolo-- orinthol-- uh ornithologist.
> >
> > I was a birdwatcher for 20 years, a birder (synonymous, but "cooler")
for 5
> > years, and a focused student of birds for 2 years before I felt capable
of
> > labeling myself an ornithologist. The turning point? A focused study of
birds
> > that led to a peer-reviewed publication in a scientific journal.