Golfing 'birders'
will find birdies
and birds in Texas,
Florida and New Jersey

For outsiders, golf and bird watching may as well be the same thing. They can be looked at as things to do to make being outside more enjoyable, plus practitioners of both activities have a propensity for getting completely entranced in their intricacies. And while Tim Finchem looks to "sex-up" golf some, he’s unable to do what bird watching has done, which is to change its name. No longer is it bird watching. Today, the cool kids call it by the streamlined moniker "birding" with its practitioners dubbed "birders."

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