野鳥観察
解説 Definition
birding は、野鳥を探し、観察し、種類を見分けるなどの活動「野鳥観察」を表す名詞です。趣味や自然観察の活動について使われます。
Birding is the recreational activity of finding, watching, identifying, and sometimes recording wild birds in their natural surroundings. The term is commonly used as a noun and is broadly equivalent to birdwatching.
使い方 Usage
使い分け Common distinctions
- birdwatching はほぼ同じ活動を表します。birding は活動、birder はそれをする人です。 Birdwatching refers to broadly the same activity. Birding names the activity; a birder is a person who does it.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
動詞 bird「野鳥を観察する」に、そのまま -ing を付けて birding。双眼鏡と図鑑を持って野鳥を探す場面で覚えます。
Add -ing directly to the verb bird, meaning to observe wild birds: bird becomes birding. Picture looking for birds with binoculars and a field guide.
例文
Birding is popular in the park during spring.
春にはその公園で野鳥観察が人気です。
The group went birding along the river at sunrise.
そのグループは日の出のころ川沿いへ野鳥観察に出かけました。
birding の類義語・関連語
birding の語源・成り立ち Etymology
birding は bird に -ing が付いた動名詞で、「鳥を見ること」から「野鳥観察」を表す。bird は古英語 brid「ひな鳥」に由来し、もとは幼鳥の語が鳥一般へ広がったため、観察名として自然に定着した。関連語は birder, birdwatching。
Birding is formed from bird and the suffix -ing, marking an activity or the continuous form of a verb. Bird comes from Old English brid, which originally referred especially to a young bird before becoming the general English word for the animal. The activity sense of birding developed from using bird as a verb. Related modern formations include birder and birdwatching.
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