How to Use birder in a Sentence

birder

noun
  • 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
  • Columnist — and birder — Ted Johnson shares the story of the philandering backyard blue jay who delivered a lesson on life.
    Drew Goins, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
  • One day that summer, while visiting the University of Virginia, Calhoun ran into a dean who happened to be an avid birder.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
  • 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 woodduck38@gmail.com.
    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

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