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noun 
  1. A brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again; a spasm.
  2. (rfv-sense) The act of spotting a bird species.
quotations
  • "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
Translations: 
    verb (twitches, twitching, twitched)
    1. (intransitive) To perform a twitch; spasm.
    1. 1995, Quarterly Review of Biology vol. 70 p. 348:
      "The Birdwatchers Handbook ... will be a clear asset to those who in Europe."
    2. 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."
    3. 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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