🦉 Bird watching 🦉 About bird watching 🦉 To watch birds

to birding

3.5

To watch and identify wild birds for fun

verb
/ˈbɜrdɪŋ/

: observar aves

Last weekend, we spent the day birding in the beautiful national park.

Weed, Molly, shrooms and acid if I'm bird watching.

Examples

During the spring, many people go birding to spot migratory species.
She enjoys birding because it helps her connect with nature.
See we're we're re birding, we're re birding, we're re birding.

Synonyms

to bird

vsto birding

6 7.1

To watch birds in nature as a hobby

focuses on identifying those species as a leisure activity

to birdwatch

vsto birding

1 3.9

To watch birds in nature for fun or study

is mainly about leisure identification rather than scientific study

How Intense

to birding

3.5

to watch

∞ 1.0

to glance at

150 2.0

Surface Forms

bird infinitive

birded past

birded past participle

birding present participle

birds third person singular

Morphology

birding = bird (transparent) = bird + ing

The verb form is the regular present-participle/gerund of the verb 'bird' (to bird) formed with '-ing', which is directly interpretable.

Etymology

Birding is the action form made from bird + -ing, meaning the activity of 'watching and identifying birds', so to go birding is to spend time looking for and noting birds as a hobby.