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bird watching

bird watching is the alternative spelling of birdwatching.

Meaning of birdwatching

Noun

birdwatching (uncountable)

  1. Observing or identifying wild birds in their natural environment.
    Synonyms:
    birding
  2. (slang) The hobby of watching rocket launches.
    • In fact, on this night, the birdwatching is over for everyone, for the firing is cancelled. Nobody notifies birdwatchers officially, of course, so the exodus is scattered and gradual.1957, Skyline, volumes 15-18, page 7
  3. (slang) Girlwatching
    • By the spring of 1968, they were the secular-singing O'Kaysion, and they had recorded a leering lyric about ogling babes for the peewee Northstate label. Local DJs, appreciating that bird-watching was a popular pastime for their listeners, rode the number as if it had a satin saddle.1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 225

Questions about bird watching

What is bird watching the alternative spelling of?
Bird watching is the alternative spelling of birdwatching.

Words near bird watching in the dictionary

  1. bird tables
  2. bird walk
  3. bird walks
  4. bird watcher
  5. bird watchers
  6. bird watching
  7. Bird Whistle
  8. bird's beak
  9. bird's eye
  10. bird's eye chili
  11. bird's eye chilis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bird watching (page history and authors); birdwatching (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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