What attributes or actions makes you identify someone as a birder?
In different places, folks may use different terms for the same person — birder, birdwatcher, naturalist — but I think they all mean the same thing.
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Like so many things in life, the label is self-assigned. I think anyone interested in outdoor birds qualifies.
My friend used to give a talk titled “Birding for Absolute Beginners”. At the start, she’d hold up 3 pictures — a duck, a jay, and a hawk and asked “Which one is the duck? The hawk? The jay?” When folks pointed to the correct photos, she’d say, “Your not absolute beginners any more!”