Gemfyre
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Vis-mig - visible migration; hence vis-migging: watching visible migration (of land birds). If your watching (migrating) seabirds from the coast, you're seawatching – if you take a ship out to sea to do the same, it's a pelagic (trip).
When we used to watch/monitor the wader migration at Broome we'd refer to it as Migwatch (Migration watch).
In Australia if you hear someone mention an OBP they're talking about an Orange-bellied Parrot (or if you're a certain Victorian politician you'd call it a "Trumped Up Corella").
Squeaker - an Audubon Bird Caller. A small, red device that allows you to make sounds that possibly call up birds, without suffering the potential embarrasment that pishing with lips and hands requires. Some skilled squeaker users can accurately replicate the calls of quite a few little bush birds. They are also great for annoying housemates.
LBC - Little Black Cormorant
LPC - Little Pied Cormorant
BFCS - Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
Cranky Fan - Grey Fantail
Junk bird - A bird so common as to be "worthless" on a lifelist. For example a Rock Dove or a Silver Gull.
Crippling view - A very good look at a bird.