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Someone who got into birdwatching and let it ruin their entire personality.
means A person who studies birds scientifically — their behavior, anatomy, classification, and habitats — as an academic or professional pursuit.
from Built from Greek ornis/ornitho- meaning 'bird' (the same root as 'ornithology' and 'ornithopter') plus -ologist, from logos, meaning 'study of.' So, literally, 'one who studies birds' — a tidy 19th-century scientific coinage, no myth required.
- origin
- Greek ornis, meaning bird, plus the usual nerd suffix
- gear
- binoculars cost more than their car
- field test
- can ID a bird from a two-second silhouette
- dark secret
- pigeons are just birds they refuse to respect