On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 08:01:41AM +1100, Lorne Johnson wrote:
> I was birding with Keith Brandwood in western Sydney a while back and
> he mentioned that not many people in Australia go birding. I agreed with
> him. I was then thinking about just how many people do bird in this
> country. Would anyone out there have a rough idea? I know it's a hard
> thing to estimate.
There are said to 2 million birdwatchers among the UK's 60 million people.
If birdwatching were as popular here, there would be 700,000 bird watchers
among 20 million Australian. If you assume birdwatching is less popular
here, you have an upper bound. The size of the membership of Birds
Australia (about 10,000?) is a very conservative lower bound. The number
of copies of field guides such Pizzey&Knight sold would be interesting
Andrew Taylor
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