The Antarctic Territories are usually excluded from the Aussie list (C&B
included them but most "listers" - see
http://www.tonypalliser.com/totals.html - do not). That roughly doubles the
Aussie density.
On 1 January 2013 13:04, Julian B <> wrote:
> Interesting thought from Ed who wrote:
>
>
>
> <Good luck back in Blighty Tony - you'll be back in a land with more
> Birders
> than Birds!>
>
>
>
> The obvious inference being that there are more birders in Britain than
> species of birds or, alternatively, that Australia has more bird species
> than actual birders. Do we really have fewer than about 1000 birders
> throughout Australia?
>
>
>
> In round ball figures, we have some 850 species; the Poms around 550.
> However, perhaps the geographical maths can be a little more enlightening.
> Our 850 include all those species recorded on the mainland [approx. 2 970
> 000sq. mls.], Australian Antarctic Territories [2 277 000 sq mls] and a few
> other spots, including some 6 sq. mls of Cocos[Keeling] Islands. That's a
> total of about 5 747 006 sq. mls of territory for 850 species of birds - or
> around 1 bird species for every 6761 sq. mls.
>
>
>
> The Poms, who do not count their 150 000 sq. mls of Antarctic territory,
> nor
> their Indian Ocean possessions, stretch to 90 504 sq. mls. for 550 bird
> species - or 1 species for every 165 sq. mls!
>
>
>
> Again, if Australia is approximately 30 times bigger than Britain and the
> Brits have 550 bird species, shouldn't our total be nearer 16 500 species
> rather than the current meagre 850?
>
>
>
> Or was that just a throw-away comment?
>
>
>
> Happy birding to all throughout 2013.
>
>
>
> Julian
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