prompter: What is the difference between birding and bird watching?

assistant: Birders are very committed to following, finding, looking at, and documenting birds. They like actively committing time to finding cool and interesting birds. On the other hand, bird watching is more passive, as bird watchers just want to see birds. Birders can sink a lot of time, money, and effort into bird watching. 
Both are similar, just birding is a very active type of bird watching. 
One can be bird watcher and a birder, but not just a birder as you have to actually watch the birds.
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assistant: Both of the terms "birding" or "birdwatching" can in most contexts be used to refer to the recreational observation of birds. Birdwatchers enjoy observing and documenting appearing birds in some area, often but not exclusively using visual aid, such as binoculars or similar tools. Birdwatchers also rely on auditive sensory data. It can be considered a form of citizen science, where laypeople of the general public contribute to scientific endeavours.

prompter: Are there any good documentaries about birdwatching? Is the TV show "Bird Up" a program about birdwatching?

assistant: Here are some good documentaries about birds or birdwatching: 

1. "Nature: Magic of the Snowy Owl" by PBS
2. "An Original Duckumentary" by PBS
3. "Nature: My Life as a Turkey" by PBS
4. "Winged Migration" by Jacques Perrin
5. "Crimson Wing – The Mystery of the Flamingo" by Disney
6. "Birders: The Central Park Effect" by Jeffrey Kimball
7. "March of the Penguins" by Luc Jacquet
8. "The Life of Birds" by BBC, and narrated by Sir David Attenborough

"Bird Up" is a segment on the American satirical comedy series "The Eric Andre Show", where it was purported to be "the worst show on television". It is not a TV program about birdwatching.

prompter: Which one do you think would be best?

assistant: I found three television shows related to birdwatching:

* *Extraordinary Birder with Christian Cooper* (2023), Nat Geo Wild
* *Birders* (2019), Netflix
* *Watching* (1987-1993), ITV

While not a television series, *The National Geographic Guide to Birding in North America* is a video course available from The Great Courses.

"Bird Up!" Is not a show about birdwatching. It is a series of skits on the *Eric Andre Show* parodying public prank television shows.

prompter: If I want to go bird watching, would it be a good idea to join some bird watching groups?  Where can I find some bird watching groups?  Are there any bird watching Meetup groups?

assistant: There are many good documentaries about birdwatching that you can watch. I know a website, that contains a list of good list of documentaries about birds. You can find it [here](https://birdwatchinghq.com/bird-movies-films/). Some of the nice films there are: Magic of the Snowy Owl, An Original Duckumentary, Owl Power, Raptor Force, and Super Hummingbirds. You also could try to watch Birders, which is a Netflix documentary that follows bird watchers on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border who share their enthusiasm for protecting and preserving some of the world’s most beautiful species.

About the “Bird Up”, I’m afraid it is not a program about birdwatching. It is actually a segment from the comedy show “The Eric Andre Show”, where the host Eric Andre dresses up as a bird and interrupts unsuspecting pedestrians with absurd antics and pranks. It is meant to be humorous and surreal, but not informative or educational about birds.

Let me know if you need any more information!