Armed with high-powered binoculars and guidebooks, the birdwatchers were a particularly hardy breed, sometimes picking out distant birds that the guides had missed. ❋ Unknown (2008)
“They’re probably birdwatchers from the National Geographic channel,” said S-2. ❋ Stephen Hunter (2010)
Some online environmental monitoring networks already exist, such as birdwatchers recording sightings. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But like all true birdwatchers, Mr. Hanson knows it isn't just the bird at the far end of the binoculars but the human being at the near end that matters, and he is writing as much about the human urge to understand, appreciate and appropriate the wild world as he is writing about feathers, which he calls, in his subtitle, a "natural miracle." ❋ Jonathan Rosen (2011)
Other success stories include the river Nar in Norfolk, which now yields sea trout as well as dace, chub and brown trout, while birdwatchers can enjoy kingfisher and reed warblers as well as admiring 12 species of dragonfly and marsh orchids. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The lough teems with life, and is paradise for birdwatchers in particular, who flock here to see the large numbers of breeding or wintering birds that nest here and on the lough's 120 islands. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The attacks, the crazy gun-toting ‘birdwatchers,’ the camera crews? ❋ Molly Harper (2011)
All I know is this, most hunting related injuries occur among hunters, not hunters and birdwatchers and bike riders. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Leaving religion out of it, hikers and bikers and birdwatchers generally oppose lifting such bans, claiming that Sunday is the one day they have the outdoors to themselves. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The link between birds and dinosaurs has long been known, but recent fossil finds in China's Yixian province—an astonishing number in the last decade by the great paleontologist Xing Xu—have started turning birdwatchers into dinosaur watchers, waiting to see what new feathered species will be exhumed next. ❋ Jonathan Rosen (2011)
These southerly winds brought another surprise: four pallid swifts, the paler version of our own familiar summer visitor, were seen by birdwatchers in scattered locations from Wales to Kent. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Half a million birdwatchers, countless birds, and one raccoon: the highlights of the RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch ❋ Unknown (2011)
So birdwatchers, hikers, bikers, dogwalkers and the like can rest assured they will not be mistakenly shot by a NJ bowhunter. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Apparently we have a lot of amateur birdwatchers here. ❋ Unknown (2010)
