Twitcher

In the same way that a sprinter is an athlete, but an athlete is not necessarily a sprinter, a twitcher is a birdwatcher, but a birdwatcher is not necessarily a twitcher. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Dozens of 'twitcher' couples have entered a contest for "the best birdwatchers 'jobs in the world" on one of Britain's most isolated islands. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The arduous journey to see the small seabirds demands more than a birdwatcher's interest - it requires the tenacity of a "twitcher," someone who travels far to find rare birds. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mark, who as well as being a highly skilled conservator and connoisseur of Latin American dancing is also a dedicated twitcher, knew what I meant. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It was one of those things where you see the first proto, and you go: 'Oooh…' I call it a nose twitcher. ❋ Polly Vernon (2010)

I might add that my English brother-in-law, an expert twitcher, insists that they are not robins at all. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The keen twitcher braved the elements to spread a few handfuls of bird seed in her back garden and on the front communal lawn outside her bungalow, as she has done for the last 20 years. ❋ FIDO The Dog (2009)

Liz Henthorn, 66, a retired nurse who is one of 120 "Street Hawk" volunteers in Enfield, north London, openly describes herself as a "curtain twitcher" but insists she is not snooping on anyone. ❋ FIDO The Dog (2008)

I was an avid twitcher until i got sent here by one of their links and I fell in love. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Down came the Scots, and they were cut up at Flodden, by Surrey, later made Duke of Norfolk: the Norfolk that was then, not the Norfolk that is now, that sinewy little twitcher constantly twitching toward his advantage. ❋ Mantel, Hilary (2008)

Ah, but she was not merely a twitcher of individual strings; she was one who seethes wandering bodies and floating voices in a cauldron, and makes rise up from its amorphous mass a recreated world. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I saw three girls who must ahve been about eight walking around wearing midriffs, ruffly butt twitcher skirts, and talking on their cell phones. ❋ Hamletwildie (2004)

Thus, there is a definition for twitcher (a common British term), but searches for birder and lister (both common terms in the U.S.) simply refer back to the definition for twitcher. ❋ John L. Trapp (2002)

Within a year he could rope and tie a mossback with the best, and in scraps with Mancos Jim's Pah-Ute horse raiders had proved himself as careless a dare-devil as the oldest and toughest trigger-twitcher of the lot. ❋ Edgar Beecher Bronson (N/A)

He caught ber hand impulsively, and they went along the narrow twitcher. ❋ Unknown (1913)

Sammy and Mrs. Follison; and Reggie, the twitcher, was entertaining ❋ George Randolph Chester (1896)

What's the difference between a twitcher and a gricer? ❋ Unknown (2011)

The general twitcher is a problem for mainstream conservation activities in only because the general public view everyone interested in the natural world as being one. ❋ Patrick Barkham (2011)