The Spanish Society of Ornithology (SEO/BirdLife) celebrated this. “pajarear” and “pajarero” are defined as bird watching hobby. In update 23.6 to the online version of the Dictionary of the Spanish Language available this Tuesday.
The organization recalled that six years ago, it asked the Royal Spanish Academy to include this meaning, which is now the most used, compared to the definitions the dictionary has so far, as it claims. ‘bird hunting’, but there were others, such as ‘to wander without study or interest in anything useful’.
In a statement, SEO/BirdLife applauded “academics’ inclusion of aviaries in their Spanish language lexicon”.
“Employment and economic activity is the recognition of a hobby that produces scientific knowledge and contributes to the conservation of nature, This has a positive effect on our health,” he said.
For the establishment, updating both the verb and the adjective “recognizes the thousands of people who go out to enjoy bird watching”, a hobby that “fulfills a fundamental function” for Spain because the data collected in the viewing programs make up the birds. It is one of the main indicators of nature conservation status”.
In Spain, SEO/BirdLife has been coordinating spring bird watching programs, wintering species, nocturnal species or the relationship between birds and climate change for over 25 years. During these years, Thousands of people have contributed their observations to build a solid scientific knowledge base. this made it possible to document, among other things, that more than 50% of the bird species in Spain show conservation problems and 90 of them are in the threat categories.
In this sense, he emphasized: Spain is one of the main global bird watching destinations. With 622 bird species on the list, some are in critical condition.
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