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eBird Economics: How Much Would You Pay to See Birds?

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Recently, two economists, Dr. Trudy Ann Cameron (University of Oregon) and Dr. Sonja Kolstoe (Salisbury University), published a paper using eBird data. However, if you could auction off each quart to the highest bidder, you’d have an idea about the collective value of those quarts. Q: Why study birders and why use eBird?

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Some Chinese Pheasants

10,000 Birds

Washington. Apparently, you just collect the excrement of captive birds, weigh it and calculate back from there. Bonus note for science nerds (not related specifically to birds): Whenever Chinese researchers give percentages, they do so up to two digits behind the decimal – thus the exact percentages in the HBW citation above.