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How much bird is there, anyway?

10,000 Birds

But if you look at a bit of prairie in South Dakota during the dead of winter, you may see very few birds and a lot of bison. Here’s some data from the famous research project of Manu, Peru, giving biomass in kilograms per hectare. The data here are from the site of Manaus: All animals: 200 Mammals: 8.4

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Some Chinese Pheasants

10,000 Birds

While this already stretches credulity, the saying continues to state that seeing one mammal is better than seeing ten pheasants (Bella from Alpinebirding indeed confirmed that this saying exists and has not just come to me in a dream. This turned out to be nice for one researcher who thus could do the research for her Ph.D.