As of right now, there are 1,160 members of the email subscription list, Lawrie.
Obviously there's a range of activity levels there.
I'm not sure of the membership of the various Facebook groups, but I
suspect they have a larger membership.
Bill
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Lawrie Conole <> wrote:
> I've been gone from BA for ages; mostly to do with too much email traffic
> and not enough bird/ing! When I checked the BA archive, there it was - very
> early posts on BA in 1995 from me, pontificating about various bird-related
> matters. It seems like a lifetime ago ... but a mere 21 years.
>
> If BA is indeed in decline, I'm sad to hear that. I'm firmly of the belief
> that (i) folks place too much faith in Facebook being the vehicle of choice
> for any useful *long-term* purpose, and (ii) that in the post-Facebook era
> many will regret exactly the yawning gap in useful accessible information
> that several other writers here have alluded to.
>
> Back in the 1990s I used BA as the vehicle for a survey of field guide
> users and their preferences. I imagine Facebook or Twitter would be just as
> useful as an email list for that kind of research. If it comes to
> searchable associations between birders, birds and places going back
> decades though, I don't see the utility or suitability of FB so much.
>
> I use Facebook a bit for matters of ephemeral interest and amusement - I
> tend to use Twitter much more for staying in touch with far flung
> ecologists, birders, ecological journal papers, etc. Maybe it's time to get
> back on BA for a while. Out of interest, how many subscribers are there now?
>
> cheers
>
> Lawrie
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