birdwatcher

UK/ˈbɜː(ɹ)dˌwɒtʃ.ə(ɹ)/

nounB1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechneutral

Other forms: birdwatchers

A birdwatcher is a person who goes out to spot and identify birds. A keen birdwatcher.

The records they keep are the longest running dataset in ecology anywhere. A birdwatcher chasing one rare sighting is called a twitcher, which is a different pursuit.

Definitions of birdwatcher

1nounbirdwatcherA person who goes out to spot and identify birds.B1
“The birdwatcher had kept the same notebook for thirty years.”

birdwatcher is a person.

Where it comes from

Bird plus watcher, a plain compound of the twentieth century.

From bird + watcher.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Birds

Practise this word

birdwatcher in the wild

Most birdwatchers pursue this activity for recreational or social reasons, unlike ornithologists, who engage in the study of birds using formal scientific methods.
Birdwatching
Lee Evans is a British birdwatcher author on rare birds and bird tour leader.
Lee G. R. Evans
The collection's fourteen stories feature ordinary people, including a farmer, a birdwatcher, an author, a mother and a travel agent, and their inevitably biased perceptions of the world.
Dancing Girls (short story collection)
Bikram Grewal is an ornithologist, author, birdwatcher and conservationist from Delhi, India who has written several guides to Indian birds.
Bikram Grewal
Ramana Athreya is a birdwatcher and an astronomer at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune.
Ramana Athreya

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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