Dictionary for Birders. Everything explained (1 Viewer)

[delia todd]

The Opus Dictionary is in six parts as it is now such a big work.

Dictionary A-C

Dictionary D-F

Dictionary G-L

Dictionary M-O

Dictionary P-S

Dictionary T-Z

Of course this is an on-going work. If you want a new word explained just ask and it will be added. Or you're welcome to edit yourself and add to it.

 

[dave598]

Is there a place to print this from

 

[delia todd]

Is there a place to print this from

Hi Dave

If you open up the article and scroll down the pane on the RHS, you will see in the Tools section an option for Printable Version.

Click on that.

How it looks may depend on your browser etc. I don't have a printer so haven't tried this myself.

 

[dave598]

Hi Dave

If you open up the article and scroll down the pane on the RHS, you will see in the Tools section an option for Printable Version.

Click on that.

How it looks may depend on your browser etc. I don't have a printer so haven't tried this myself.

Thank you I appreciate it

 

[delia todd]

Cheers Dave. Hope it works OK.... let me know if there's any problems though won't you.

 

[dave598]

Cheers Dave. Hope it works OK.... let me know if there's any problems though won't you.

Thank you Delia it worked and I have printed it and am adding it to my reference notebook.

 

[njlarsen]

If any of you find a term that is missing, the opus editors will be interested in knowing!
Niels

 

[Brian J Small]

Diastataxic

Having no secondary feather corresponding to the fifth feather of the greater wing coverts. If a secondary is present, the arrangement is called 'eutaxic'. Diastataxy occurs in for example Diomedeidae albatrosses

 

[Brian J Small]

Just browsing. Surprised that Mimicry and Mimetic are not defined for birds.

B

 

[delia todd]

.... browse away Brian.... good ones there.

There's no reason why you shouldn't add them yourself if you want to.

 

[njlarsen]

Just browsing. Surprised that Mimicry and Mimetic are not defined for birds.

B

Thanks Brian,
the two -taxic and the mimicry entry made. I am not sure I have a good enough understanding of Mimesis to explain it, could you give an example?

Niels

 

[tconzemi]

Had to check myself what mimesis is, Google says:
'Sharing a lot of kinship with camouflage is “mimesis”, which is a variety of mimicry where an organism evolves to closely resemble a very specific benign environmental object to avoid detection.' Nov 26, 2015

 

[photoking]

Very useful one. TFS

 

[Wallcreep]

The Opus Dictionary is in six parts as it is now such a big work.

Dictionary A-C

Dictionary D-F

Dictionary G-L

Dictionary M-O

Dictionary P-S

Dictionary T-Z

Of course this is an on-going work. If you want a new word explained just ask and it will be added. Or you're welcome to edit yourself and add to it.

Simply wow. What great effort. Thanks so much!

 

[delia todd]

Thank you very much Wallcreep. It's much appreciated.

 

[katastrofa]

As a non-native English speaker, I'd really appreciate if this dictionary included different types of habitat. I often struggle to describe the habitat in which I observed the bird. Was it shrubs? bushes? undergrowth? What are the differences?

 

[delia todd]

Hi K.... OK good idea. There's lots of foreign habitats that I struggle with too.

To be going on with... basically... shrubs are found in gardens while bushes grow in the wild.
Undergrowth is low stuff that grows beneath trees and bushes, rarely coming above the knee.

That's my interpretation, others may differ slightly.

 

[Julie50]

Great stuff 😀

 

[Jimmy G]

Thanks for this great reference material, I just downloaded the entire set to help me, er, "up my game" on proper avian terminology usage!

 

[delia todd]

Thanks Jimmy, it's nice to know that the Opus Editors work is proving of some use to our members.