How much bird is there, anyway?
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2011
I was looking out a car window the other day and noticed that of all the wildlife most of it was bird. Here’s some data from the famous research project of Manu, Peru, giving biomass in kilograms per hectare. Note that there are a lot of mammals (about 40) that are bigger than any bird in this sample.
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