Do iiiitttt!! You don’t need expensive equipment, a decent pair of 8×42 binoculars is enough to get started (I like Bushnell’s). It’s a great way to spend time in nature and it can make such a difference for your mental health. That is, until you run into your first nemesis bird. Then there’s only rage…
Basically a bird you’ve been trying to see multiple times but it’s eluded you so far. Other useful terms:
Lifer: A specific species of bird you’ve seen for the first time ever
Jizz: The bird’s ‘vibe’, if you will. Sometimes you can’t see or hear a bird well enough but you can tell what it is by a combination of factors like the way it flies/moves, its behaviour, location, etc. That’s jizz.
Little Brown Jobs/Birds (LBJ/Bs): Lots of birds are small, brown and look very alike. It’s hell to tell some of them apart.
Windfucker: this isn’t an actual useful term, it’s the old english name for a kestrel. I just find it very funny.
Honestly I don’t know why this term exists when we already have “rizz” (etymology charisma) which could be stretched to mean “characteristics” and not make non-birders snicker or go wide-eyed.
Do iiiitttt!! You don’t need expensive equipment, a decent pair of 8×42 binoculars is enough to get started (I like Bushnell’s). It’s a great way to spend time in nature and it can make such a difference for your mental health. That is, until you run into your first nemesis bird. Then there’s only rage…
… Nemesis bird?
Basically a bird you’ve been trying to see multiple times but it’s eluded you so far. Other useful terms:
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I can’t tell if I’m being trolled here with “jizz” and I’m far too afraid to Google “bird jizz” to find out
I shit you not, it is a real thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizz_(birding)
Huh! That’s wild
Also, this image is getting shared to everyone I know
Honestly I don’t know why this term exists when we already have “rizz” (etymology charisma) which could be stretched to mean “characteristics” and not make non-birders snicker or go wide-eyed.
You’ve seen what bird people legitimately name birds, right? There’s no way it isn’t intentional.
See also:
Et cetera.
Anyway, “rizz” is supposed to be a derivative of “charisma” (char-rizz-ma).