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Bird tourism factoid request

To: Sean Dooley <>
Subject: Bird tourism factoid request
From: Andrew Taylor <>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 14:52:15 +1000
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 01:36:44PM +1000, Sean Dooley wrote:
> There is an oft-quoted stat that on every international flight taking off
> from Heathrow there are on average four birdwatchers. I was wondering
> whether anyone had a source for this stat.

number of RSPB members = 1000000
UK population = 60000000
estimated passengers/plane = 240
240*1000000/60000000 -> 4

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Andrew

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