Is birding a hobby or a sport or a scientific pursuit?
Birding is the delightful hobby of discovering and watching birds. Sometimes it is the process of listening for birds. Some Birding Guides will help you find the best places for bird-watching. They do this with range maps and seasonal suggestions.
Other people refute this explanation and see birding as a very competitive sport, like car racing. How many can you see in a single day or hour?
And still others see birding as a serious scientific pursuit the way the early naturalists did, making new discoveries every day.
This makes a bird-watching meeting most interesting because the participants are from all categories noted above.