There are 50 billion birds in the world (new study estimates)

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There are roughly 50 billion individual birds in the world, a new big data study by UNSW Sydney suggests — about six birds for every human on the planet.

House sparrows alone make up about 1.6 billion of these.

And three other species - European starlings, barn swallows and ring-billed gulls - also have populations exceeding one billion birds.

However, most bird species are rare, with about one-in-ten species down to fewer than 5,000 individuals, say the authors.

This "snapshot" of the global bird population will help in conservation efforts to save birds from extinction, says a team at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests most birds are found in the northern hemisphere: in Europe, northern Asia, northern Africa, parts of the Arabian Peninsula, and North America.

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-57150571,https://reliableuk.com/news/tech/from-avocet-to-zebra-finch-study-finds-there-are-more-than-50-billion-birds-in-the-world/

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And it feels like most of them live outside my ****ing house  

[MyQueen 2,409]

I thought there will even more than 50b since there is 8b people on th planet!

 

[chromatic puzea 10,653]

8 minutes ago, dynamite said:

And it feels like most of them live outside my ****ing house  

beat me to it

[imnotyourbabe10 6,120]

Nature, please take over the dominance that our invasive species of homosapiens has held to for far too long.

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3 minutes ago, chromatic puzea said:

beat me to it

It's ok you can take the joke about 1000 doves 

[River 127,484]

This is why it's so noisy on earth

pkaaaa pkaaaaa pkaaa F-CK U BITCH JUST SHUT UP

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16 minutes ago, dynamite said:

And it feels like most of them live outside my ****ing house  

Me too. We live next to a park, have big backyard too and on top of that my mom puts out bird seeds to attract them

 

I go outside and im like:

 

[River 127,484]

The worst is when they are h-rny, like take a room stop doing it under my window and make so much noise

[PunkTheFunk 125,703]

Does this count the ones in my fridge?

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No wonder Twitter is such a mess 

[CyanDante 6,238]

Makes me wonder how many tits are there in this world! 

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45 minutes ago, FfFfFfFF said:

There are roughly 50 billion individual birds in the world, a new big data study by UNSW Sydney suggests — about six birds for every human on the planet.

House sparrows alone make up about 1.6 billion of these.

And three other species - European starlings, barn swallows and ring-billed gulls - also have populations exceeding one billion birds.

However, most bird species are rare, with about one-in-ten species down to fewer than 5,000 individuals, say the authors.

This "snapshot" of the global bird population will help in conservation efforts to save birds from extinction, says a team at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests most birds are found in the northern hemisphere: in Europe, northern Asia, northern Africa, parts of the Arabian Peninsula, and North America.

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-57150571,https://reliableuk.com/news/tech/from-avocet-to-zebra-finch-study-finds-there-are-more-than-50-billion-birds-in-the-world/

I always wonder how they get this numbers. Like recently scientists confirmed that they were wrong about the amount of galaxies in the universe lowering the number from approx 4 trillion galaxies to hundres of billions (that is quite a downsize).

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/13/world/new-horizons-space-fewer-galaxies-scn-trnd/index.html