Meaning of ornithologize | Babel Free

Definitions

To practise ornithology.

intransitive, uncommon

Examples

“I have pretty well finished ornithologizing this spring, and have done worse than ever.”

“I strongly suspect that this bird has been mistaken by naturalists, who have ornithologized in this section, for the common American raven (Corvus carnivorus), since it seems to me impossible that any one should remain here any length of time without seeing it; […]”

“In early summer, several years ago, we were ornithologizing in a beautiful clump of natural wood along a steep brae face, so well sheltered from the north and east, and with so sunny and southern an aspect, that it had been known to us for years as the very paradise of all sorts of singing-birds in the nesting season.”

“I have always followed my own sweet will in Prospect Park; sketched, botanized, ornithologized, entomologized as my whim dictated, and my whim dictates stronger than ever in the present emergency, could I only be on hand to humor it.”

“In the meantime, it would be a wise precaution for them to divert suspicion by wearing starched linen collars, neat cut-away coats, and, if possible, tall silk hats, while they are out in the woods botanizing or ornithologizing.”

“The party consisted of the authors and three students from the Throop Polytechnic Institute of Pasadena. One of these, Philip Finger, was Mr. Mailliard’s assistant; another, Joseph Dixon, Mr. Grinnell’s; while the third, Walter P. Taylor, ornithologized on his own account.”

“But he who rises so early misses a fine sport indeed—the exciting game of ornithologizing (is there such a companion word to botanizing?) in bed.”

“A lean man of fifty-five, with weak eyes and soft speech, he rakes shale on the road and botanizes, ornithologizes, geologizes and muses on the museum.”

“Imagine the penguin-eyed view of a typical romantic comedy from Hollywood. “Oh look,” the female penguin says during the gushy scenes, “the humans are engaging in instinctive behaviors that have evolutionarily led them to procreate.” “Nonsense,” says the male. “You’re ornithologizing again.””

“I. L. Gordon ornithologizes. Concurring with Margaret Goldsmith that ‘we cannot identify all the species exactly, since from the evidence of glosses it appears that the Anglo-Saxons did not make the clear distinctions between the species that are made now’, she remarks on huilpan (l. 21): […]”

“Ornithologizing / People who are certified bird watchers keep lists of all the birds they have seen in their life.”

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