How to Use birder in a Sentence

birder

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  • Word had it a birder was even on a flight from New York to see it.
    — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The state is a birder’s paradise with 566 species to check off your list.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 24 Nov. 2020
  • A good birder might have a life list of hundreds of species.
    — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 May 2017
  • The island has about 300 tourists a year, most of them hardcore birders.
    — WIRED, 15 July 2023
  • Any birders out there with a guess? Reading this on your phone?
    — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2017
  • The raptor fluttered from the gloved palm of a birder and into the woods of Ruth Arcand Park.
    — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 24 May 2022
  • Among them are some of the more sought after species for local birders.
    — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 12 May 2017
  • No other birders have been able to spot the bird since Sanchez photographed it.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 2 May 2024
  • But for now, North Texas birders feel hopeful about their return to the area, Collins said.
    — Noor Adatia, Dallas News, 5 May 2023
  • But at Bryant Park, amid the birders, the tourists and the library patrons, a backstage was not available.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 4 June 2024
  • Michael Lathroum, who is also an avid birder, came and helped get the owl off a busy stretch of the highway.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Bird-watch in the Ballona Wetlands Take a three-hour field trip to a birder’s paradise.
    — Michael Charboneau, Los Angeles Times, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Burns said birders could spot over 100 hawks in the Anza-Borrego Desert each day.
    — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2024
  • For New York City birders, the duck seemed to illustrate the specifics of a global problem.
    — Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Stylish binoculars Looking for a gift for the birder in your life?
    — Erica Finamore, wsj.com, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Cooper, a Black man and an avid birder, asked the woman to leash her dog, as the law required, so as not to disturb the wildlife.
    — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Bird strike records in Alaska reads like a birder’s checklist, from ravens to owls to pipits to killdeer.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Aug. 2022
  • But the elision of bird-birder-birding somehow touched the beyond, and birding is now the word of choice....
    — Laura Jacobs, WSJ, 17 May 2019
  • The birders go off in search of other bird songs, and the herpetologists head out to chase frogs into the night.
    — Richard Conniff, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • Lifelong birder Jim Williams can be reached at [email protected].
    — Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 24 Nov. 2020
  • The Cook County record was last broken in 2013, also by a teenage birder.
    — Morgan Greene Chicago Tribune, Star Tribune, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Here is a perfect gift for the birder on your holiday list.
    — Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 15 Dec. 2020
  • The next few weeks are among the most exciting times of the year for birders in Massachusetts.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2018
  • Late June through July is the slowest time of the year on this birder’s calendar.
    — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 27 June 2018
  • This is known as a birder’s boon — more than 85 species of migratory birds are known to come through.
    — Molly McArdle, Travel + Leisure, 22 Mar. 2023
  • If dad isn't a birder, pick a bird before heading out, choose a spot to look for it, and place a wager on who sees it first.
    — The Editors, Outside Online, 30 May 2018
  • Last year, hundreds of birders flocked to the coast after a rare Ross’s gull was seen in Pillar Point Harbor.
    — Jill K. Robinson, SFChronicle.com, 12 July 2018
  • Mike Williams, a birder from Sugar Land, Texas, hopped in his car and made the roughly three-hour drive southwest to see the cattle tyrant.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Anyone who has shared a jeep with a safari first timer or a birder knows the peril of mixed company.
    — Devanshi Mody, Robb Report, 4 July 2024
  • Soon, other birders began showing up to take a look at the interloper.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Aug. 2024

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