What's the difference between birdwatching and ornithology?
Birdwatching
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Example Sentences:
(1) Roadford Lake with over 730 acres for watersports, fishing and birdwatching plus paths and bridleways.
(2) A great bolthole for a birdwatching (01496 850010, islaybirding.co.uk ), hiking or whisky-tasting break.
(3) They also organise tours galore: caving, salmon fishing, hiking, birdwatching.
(4) The memoir also tells how Franzen took up birdwatching in 1999, after his mother's death, and how in 2005, after hearing Al Gore speak about global warming, he began to worry about the thousands of avian species facing extinction worldwide: "I couldn't find a way not to care .
(5) They climbed mountains, learned how to fly fish, went birdwatching.
(6) While discussion of Croatia as a travel destination usually focuses on the beachy delights of the Dalmatian coast, the country is also home to some of the most spectacular – and, crucially, well-protected – natural environments in Europe, with seemingly limitless opportunities for hiking, camping, climbing, caving, animal-spotting, birdwatching and generally "doing nature" without doing it in.
(7) The remote setting is great for simple pleasures such as beachcombing, walking and birdwatching.
(8) How to be a Bad Birdwatcher - Simon Barnes Scissor Sisters
(9) Point Pelee, a marshy spit jutting into Lake Erie, is an international mecca for birdwatchers.
(10) The festival is a draw for birdwatchers and wildlife photographers, with workshops, lectures and guided tours of the 57,000-acre reserve.
(11) There are hardly any facilities here, but surfers, birdwatchers, fishermen and horseriders love it, as do gemstone hunters.
(12) However, it affords good views from the deck (the novelist is an avid birdwatcher) and the low overheads that permit Franzen to let five years go by without delivering a novel.
(13) The birdwatching is fantastic: on my way down south this time, I saw storks, vultures, eagles and the odd falcon sitting on a pole.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Like other birdwatchers, Packham hopes that if the spring hunting is halted, Malta could benefit from a surge in ecotourism and become a birdwatching destination – rather than a black hole for rare species.
(15) I really like Point Pleasant park close to Halifax’s harbour – an amazing park great for cycling, walking, birdwatching and running.
(16) The park reports the greatest numbers of endangered, threatened and rare species in Pennsylvania, with Gull Point natural area usually the best place to birdwatch.
(17) Eric Illsley, 55, the former Labour MP for Barnsley Central, who pleaded guilty to dishonestly claiming £14,000 relating to insurance, repairs, utility bills and council tax at his second home, was jailed for a year in February Morley's guilty plea marks an inauspicious end to a political career that saw the avid birdwatcher elevated to a ministerial post at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when Labour came to power in 1997.
(18) Birds of deep woodland, not gardens, they’re the birdwatchers’ dark grail.
(19) Dunnet Bay , on the other side of Thurso, is one of the best: a super-clean and stunning sweep of beach, popular with surfers and birdwatchers.
(20) More than 370 species of birds have been spotted since the refuge was established in 1939, making this one of the most diverse birdwatching spots in North America.
Ornithology
Definition:
(n.) That branch of zoology which treats of the natural history of birds and their classification.
(n.) A treatise or book on this science.
Example Sentences:
(1) Later, while spending weekends practicing falconry at Blow’s country estate, McQueen relished the contrast with his early foray into ornithology.
(2) The British Trust for Ornithology said recent research had shown a "hungry gap" when farmland birds were finding it hard to find seed in the two months after farmers began to plough their fields in mid February.
(3) In addition to a number of oecological and ornithological considerations, reference was also made to systematic facts and routes along which further investigations on the presence of influenza viruses in the world of birds could be taken up, particular attention being paid to migratory birds.
(4) The report drew heavily on the British Trust for Ornithology's mammoth volunteer-led project the Bird Atlas 2007-11 , published a month earlier.
(5) Malick's obsession with ornithology is well known to admirers of his films, which often include lyrical passages that cut away from the central dramatic action to focus on swaying grasses and wildlife.
(6) Mário Rego (+351 966 302 853) is a lovely guide and specialises in Terceira’s rich ornithology and geology.
(7) The presence of hemagglutination-inhibiting antibodies to tick-borne encephalitis virus was investigated in serum samples from domestic animals (217 from swine, 214 from cattle, 179 from goats and 161 from sheep) and birds (214 from geese and 171 from ducks), as well as from 511 apparently healthy subjects of a biotope with particular ornithological and entomological characteristics.
(8) Thus an extraordinary chapter in the history of radio broadcasting – and ornithology – finally reached its end.
(9) Later still, he joined the Actors Theatre of Louisville, and drifted through a year at university studying, he says, 'Italian, ornithology and writing.'
(10) While one of his brothers manages the American Express office in town and another trades in Switzerland, Mohamed has stayed close to the Nile and developed a passion for ornithology.
(11) The song Feed the Birds has nothing to do with ornithology: it's about how it doesn't take much to give love.
(12) According to the British Trust for Ornithology , if current population trends continue, it is highly likely that some of these birds will not just decline in numbers, but may disappear from Britain altogether.
(13) Ornithology aside, Arnold was ever the stoker of embers, saying that Barbarouses should have been sent off for a first-half challenge.
(14) Lyster and Chris were fitted with the satellite tags last May by scientists from the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO).