Birder

[f. BIRD v. + -ER¹.]

  † 1.  A bird-catcher, a fowler, Obs.

1481–90.  Howard Househ. Bks., 379. My Lord gaff to a byrder of the Quenes xx. d.

1551.  Turner, Herbal, I. F v b. Byrders … lyme the twygges and go a batfolynge wyth them.

1622.  Breton, Strange Newes (1876), 13. And like good birders kindly knew a Bunting from a Larke.

  2.  A breeder of birds.

1827.  Carlyle, Germ. Rom., III. 151. His father … who in winter had been a birder.

  3.  A local name for the wild cat.

1864.  Northampton Herald, 2 July. In the woods of Rockingham and Burghley, it is known by the name of birder.