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单词 birder
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birdern.

Brit. /ˈbəːdə/, U.S. /ˈbərdər/
Forms: Middle English briddir (in surnames), Middle English bryddere (in surnames), Middle English–1600s byrder, 1500s– birder.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bird n., -er suffix1; bird v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: Originally < bird n. + -er suffix1. Compare earlier fowler n.1 and later bird v. In later use also partly < bird v. + -er suffix1.In sense 1b probably short for mutton-birder n.; compare earlier birding n. 1c. In sense 3 after German Vogler fowler n.1 (1795, in the passage translated in quot. 1827, or earlier in the sense ‘breeder of birds’; already in Old High German in the sense ‘person who hunts for birds’, 15th cent. in the sense ‘person who sells birds’).
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a. A person who hunts or catches wild birds; a bird-catcher. Now rare.Attested earliest as a surname.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > fowler > [noun]
fowlerc893
birder1308
catcher1550
bird-catcher1580
bird-angler1653
wild-fowler1859
waterfowler1888
1308 in Trans. Philol. Soc. (2010) 108 216 Rad[ulfu]s le Briddir.
1332–3 Exchequer Subsidy Roll in Coll. Hist. Staffs. (1889) X. 124 Ric'o le Bryddere.
1483 in J. P. Collier Househ. Bks. John Duke of Norfolk & Thomas Earl of Surrey (1844) 379 The v. day of Aprill, my Lord gaff to a byrder of the Quenes, xx.d.
1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. F vv Byrders..lyme the twygges and go a batfolynge wyth them.
1652 Mercurius Democritus No. 38. 301 A good caution for Citts hereafter when they go a birding, to keep the Place of their abode to themselves, there being wiser birders abroad then themselues.
1836 J. Low Diss. Soil & Agric. Penang iii. 173 He may turn birder, and ensnare wild-fowl, which abound in the jungles.
1944 Sci. News Let. 11 Nov. 318/2 Conservation measures aiming at the increase of island bird populations include protection of the birds and their eggs against commercial ‘birders’ and ‘eggers’.
b. Australian and New Zealand. A person who catches mutton-birds or prepares their carcasses for sale; = mutton-birder n.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > fowler > [noun] > using snare or net > trapper of specific birds
lark-catcher1618
larker1634
sparrower1830
mutton-birder1881
birder1918
1918 Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 1917 50 145 Partially white mutton-birds are..yet sufficiently rare as to make a specimen of special interest even to the birders.
1985 N.Z. Jrnl. Zool. 12 329/2 The muttonbirders decided to remove the wekas as they were damaging muttonbirds killed by birders.
2014 Advocate (Burnie, Tasmania) (Nexis) 3 Apr. 3 The lack of muttonbirds on Trefoil Island has proved costly for birder, Wayne Cole, who can no longer sell to butchers and residents across the Coast.
2. English regional (Northamptonshire). The European wildcat, Felis silvestris. rare. Now historical.
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1712 J. Morton Nat. Hist. Northants. vii. 433 Many Years ago we had wild Cats in our Northamptonshire Woods... These from their way of living, which is catching Birds, on which chiefly they feed, are here called Birders.
1857 London Q. Rev. (U.S. ed.) Jan. 27/1 The abbot of Peterborough had royal license given him to hunt the hare, the fox, and the wild-cat (catum silvestrem); the last is yet to be found in the woods of Burghley and Rockingham, where it is known by the name of ‘birder’.
1864 Northampton Herald 2 July In the woods of Rockingham and Burghley, it is known by the name of birder.
1993 M. Pipe Northants. Ghosts & Legends 116 Dialect Words... Birder, the wild cat.
3. A breeder of birds. Obsolete. Apparently an isolated use.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > [noun] > bird-keeper or -breeder
birder1827
aviarist1883
aviculturist1904
bird-keeper1938
1827 T. Carlyle tr. J. P. F. Richter in German Romance III. 151 The empty bird-coops of his father, who in winter had been a birder [Ger. Vogler].
4. Originally U.S. A birdwatcher.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > one who sees > [noun] > bird-watcher
birdwatcher1803
birder1900
bird spotter1931
birdo1950
birdman1955
twitcher1974
1900 Sunday Jrnl. (Indianapolis) 8 Apr. 9/6 Many a spring morning had we ‘birders’ gone out to see the bobolink and returned with defeat written in our gait and on our faces.
1945 Audubon Mag. 47 212/2 As a birder and a soldier, I've wandered up and down the country.
1975 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 8 Oct. s6/1 Ottawa birders have seen 17 grey jays so far this fall.
1985 Birds Autumn 38/2 The proficient birder can identify birds by song as easily as by sight.
2015 Oxf. Times 21 May 62/3 I have, along with a growing number of local birders, been charmed with the wonderful call of the cuckoo.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021).
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