Brilliant! Today I learned *”****jizz*** *or* ***giss*** *is the overall impression or appearance of a* [*bird*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird) *garnered from such features as shape, posture, flying style or other habitual movements, size and colouration combined with voice, habitat and location.*” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizz_(birding)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizz_(birding))
What a lovely bit of knowledge to end July with. Thanks OP. 🦢
But they are drawings and not actual pictures.
And there was me thinking that that was an egregious misprint necessitating the withdrawal of the book, but NO…
“When the expert birder can identify a robin at a 100 yards by the way it drops off a fence, he’s always using “jizz” “.
The term ‘jizz’ applies accross all species as a catch all term for general behavior characteristics. Common place in entomology.
And yes, still to this day makes me giggle when even when using in a professional capactiy 😄
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I can’t believe Greg James was talking about bird’s jizz the other week on Radio 1.
https://www.tiktok.com/@bbc/video/7362135401294794016
Brilliant! Today I learned *”****jizz*** *or* ***giss*** *is the overall impression or appearance of a* [*bird*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird) *garnered from such features as shape, posture, flying style or other habitual movements, size and colouration combined with voice, habitat and location.*” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizz_(birding)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizz_(birding))
What a lovely bit of knowledge to end July with. Thanks OP. 🦢
But they are drawings and not actual pictures.
And there was me thinking that that was an egregious misprint necessitating the withdrawal of the book, but NO…
“When the expert birder can identify a robin at a 100 yards by the way it drops off a fence, he’s always using “jizz” “.
The term ‘jizz’ applies accross all species as a catch all term for general behavior characteristics. Common place in entomology.
And yes, still to this day makes me giggle when even when using in a professional capactiy 😄