British birder Annie Andreae bristles at being called a "twitcher" - friendly slang in England for someone who will drop everything at the drop of a hat to get a glimpse at a must-see bird.
"I'm not a twitcher. I just like watching them," Andrea says. "They look lovely sitting there like that."
The evidence may speak for itself. Andreae flew about 8,000 kilometers to get to St Paul Island to see birds. While she dislikes being known as a twitcher, she doesn't mind being called cuckoo.
"We're a mad lot," she says, as she and her fellow British birders stand close to the edge of 30-metre cliffs in gale-force winds, peering over the edge to see nesting seabirds.
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