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- noun Plural form of
twitcher .
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Examples
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A bird never before seen in Britain has turned up 2,000 miles from home near Land's End. The Alder Flycatcher attracted 200 birdspotters - known as twitchers - to Nanjizal in West Cornwall on Thursday.
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"There's been calls from all across Australia coming into the Queensland Museum and into our office so there's an enormous amount of interest from the 'twitchers' [bird watchers who focus on collecting new species] out there and the scientific and conservation community as well, so it's a very, very exciting find."
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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The most extreme birders, or "twitchers," are so obsessed that they think nothing of spending thousands of dollars to pursue one or two exotic species for "the list," the running tally of species they have spotted.
Birders Flock East 2008
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Cheese "twitchers" in search of ever rarer cheeses will be pleased to see the Swedish Festival at the Foodhall in
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He said they were becoming so popular that moth "twitchers" were on the increase, with people travelling long distances to see rare species.
unknown title 2008
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As to the species that have yet to appear but which could do so in the next few weeks, turning 2011 into a record year of activity for twitchers, there are three likely candidates, added Evans.
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A native of east Asia, it is extremely rare in Britain, but has now spent the past two weeks at the very northern edge of the nation, caught by the cameras of twitchers who have flocked to the island.
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Last week a once-in-a-lifetime oriental turtle dove landed in a Chipping Norton garden and more than a hundred twitchers paid a fiver each to get a view from the kitchen window.
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The jump in bird species numbers in the British Isles is good news for twitchers, who obsessively follow news of sightings in order to add rare species to their lists – though the increase does pose financial problems for the birdwatching community.
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Naturally, the website is manna from heaven for nosy neighbours and curtain twitchers.
Bankrupt? Your personal details will be on the insolvency register for all to see 2010
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