Good morning all ³Birdwatching², according to Wikipedia was a term first used in 1918, but I cannot find an original reference. Does anybody out there know? Regards Denise
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Russell, thanks very much for this. And thanks to all who responded to my query.
Regards Denise
on 29/9/11 10:42 AM, rdwoodford@aanet.com.au at rdwoodford@aanet.com.au wrote:
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The Australian Digital Newspaper Archive has no record of “birdwatcher”, “birdwatching” or “bird-watching” until about 1904. I found quite a few records during the 1890s for the search “birdwatcher” – but these all turned out to be OCR misreadings of the name of a racehorse, Birdcatcher!
From 1904, articles about bird-watching appeared quite regularly in various newspapers.
Russell
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The phrase “bird watching” appears to have had little or no use in print until Edmund Selous’s 1901 book of that title. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Selous Andrew ===============================
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