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I asked my brother and he says the main term used is GISS, which is also mentioned in the article. It's an acronym for general impression of size and shape. He hadn't heard of jizz in his 30+ years of birding around the world.
So despite jizz being published first, the WWII era "GISS" is used more often.
Jizz is used quite commonly by birders in Britain. I don't know if your brother is British or American but I'd assume it's just a term that never caught on in America and that's why your brothers never heard of it?
He's American. He has traveled to a few other continents for birding adventures, but I doubt that sort of thing would come up, even in birder conversation.
Is jizz as common in Britain as jism or spunk? She said, with a straight face.