Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 19:12:41 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Kurt R. Schwarz" Subject: Re: Article on birding in today's Post MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The term "Myrtle Warbler" is still accepted, and used by NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS, put out by the American Bird Association. I think "Yellow-shafted Flicker is too. So "Bird-watching" is still a perfectly legitimate term Kurt "I Have Opinions" Schwarz Howard County white-crown@home. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Sussman" To: Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 6:30 PM Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Article on birding in today's Post > In a message dated 2/11/2001 5:36:36 PM Eastern Standard Time, > bookworms@HOME.COM writes: > > > > article on birding (which it unfortunately calls > > > > Sherry, > > Is it politically incorrect nowadays to still refer to it as > "bird-watching?" I guess I am still old-fashioned that way sometimes, too. > When I started, it was simply called bird-watching. Now the term "birding" > speaks more of it as a sport than a hobby. I guess "bird-watching" went the > way of the Yellow-shafted Flicker, the Myrtle Warbler and (more recently) the > Oldsquaw! > > Rick Sussman > Ashton,MD > warblerick@aol.com > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================