Bill,
The current number of BA Facebook members is around 570.
Carl Clifford
> On 5 Jan 2016, at 12:55 PM, Bill Stent <> wrote:
>
> 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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