🇬🇧🇨🇳 birdwatching - 观鸟 : English Lesson

Meaning of "birdwatching" ("观鸟"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

Birdwatching is a hobby where people quietly look for birds outdoors and watch what they do. Birdwatchers might go to parks, forests, fields, or even their own backyard with binoculars to see birds up close. They try to notice the birds’ colors, shapes, songs, and behaviors, and sometimes write them down in a notebook. Birdwatching is about enjoying nature, learning about different kinds of birds, and trying not to scare or bother them while you watch.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

During birdwatching, we saw a heron standing so still I thought it had a low-battery mode.

I invented extreme birdwatching, which is like normal birdwatching but with more tripping over tree roots.

I started birdwatching in my backyard, and the robin started people-watching from the fence, so we’re even now.

For birdwatching homework, I drew a penguin in a palm tree and my teacher said, “Nice imagination, wrong continent.”

I thought birdwatching meant birds watched us, so I waved politely at every pigeon.

On the quiet bank, she set up for birdwatching, binoculars warm in her hands. Gentle birdwatching let her notice a bright small bird feeding its chicks; birdwatching showed tiny, quick bills and a nervous hop. A child joined, breathless with the view. They shared the hush of birdwatching and smiled; birdwatching had made their morning complete.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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