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You travel to a foreign country and the only words you learned to speak are names of birds.

Your idea of a great vacation is to travel to Brownsville to spend a day at the dump.

Your vacation of a lifetime is spent at a place called Attu.

You spend your time on a Caribbean cruise looking for pelagic birds.

You spend your anniversary checking the ice flows in Churchill for gulls.

When shopping for new clothes you check the pockets are big enough to hold a field guide.

The Rare Bird Hot Line is number one on your speed dial.

Only a fellow birder can decipher the license plate on your car.

You know the difference between a pelagic and a passerine.

When you talk about the World Series you're not talking sports.

You own more optics than a college observatory.

You know how to pronounce Pyrrhuloxia and Phainopepla.

When someone says there is more to life than birding, you question their sanity.

You only win Final Jeopardy when the category is birds.