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noun
- A brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again; a spasm.
- (rfv-sense) The act of spotting a bird species.
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- "The challenge of adding a particular bird to one's life list, and the surge of adrenaline that accompanies a successful , is comparable in many ways to climbing a mountain." — http://www.10000birds.com/may2004.htm
verb (twitches, twitching, twitched)
- (intransitive) To perform a twitch; spasm.
- 1995, Quarterly Review of Biology vol. 70 p. 348:
- "The Birdwatchers Handbook ... will be a clear asset to those who in Europe."
- 2003, Mark Cocker, Birders: Tales of a Tribe http://books.google.com/books?id=tv-Noj1Fvc0C, ISBN 0802139965, page 52:
- "But the key revelation from twitching that wonderful Iceland Gull on 10 March 1974 wasn't its eroticism. It was the sheer innocence of it."
- 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch: One Man, One Continent, a Race Against Time'' http://books.google.com/books?id=fWLmpqL4EMsC, ISBN 1741145287, page 119:
- "I hadn't seen John since I went to Adelaide to (unsuccessfully) the '87 Northern Shoveler, when I was a skinny, eighteen- year-old kid. "
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