Just how many birds are there?

[Paul Taylor <>]

david taylor wrote:
> Fisher (1951), a British ornithologist, estimated there are more than 100
> billion individual wild birds in the world.  The Wilson's Storm-petrel,
> Oceanites oceanicus, a seabird, is probably the most numerous wild bird in
> the world, and the starling and the house sparrow may by the most abundant
> wild land birds (Fisher, 1951).  Obviously, this is an estimate, but an
> educated one.
How did Fisher come to that conclusion?  Compared to starlings and
Short-tailed Shearwaters, even more Wilson's Storm-petrels is truly
mind-boggling!

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