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

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The economic “impact” of a birding festival can be estimated by looking at expenditures of attendees ( e.g., hotel rooms, meals, souvenirs, transportation costs, etc.). Thus, there is no conventional market-clearing price for economists to observe, so it is much harder to document society’s collective overall willingness to pay.

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A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate

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He has done an enormous amount of research, carefully documented the text, and produced a bibliography 13 pages long. Prepared by the Audubon Society with statistics, Greeley was able to link bird protection to crop protection, making it a food conservation priority and thus a war issue.