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Soaring populations put four species in billion bird club

There are 50 billion wild birds on Earth – but four species dominate

Arndt Sven-Erik/Arterra Picture Library/Alamy Earth is home to around 50 billion wild birds according to a new global estimate, but most species are very rare and only a handful number in the billions. Just four undomesticated species are in the club of those with a billion-plus individuals, with house sparrows ( Passer domesticus) the most abundant, followed by European starlings ( Sturnus vulgaris), ring-billed gulls ( Hirundo rustica). By contrast, 1180 species number fewer than 5000 birds each. Advertisement “One of the takeaways is mother nature just loves rare species. It’s what some refer to as hyper dominance, which has been found in Amazonia tree flora and other plant groups. It’s not terribly surprising, but it’s good to have the data,” says Corey Callaghan at the University of New South Wales, Australia, who led the research.

World is home to 50bn birds, breakthrough citizen science research estimates | Birds

Last modified on Thu 20 May 2021 08.54 EDT There are about 50 billion individual wild birds in the world, according to new research that uses citizen science observations to try to estimate population numbers for almost 10,000 species. The paper, led by scientists at the University of New South Wales, suggests there are about six times as many birds on the planet as humans – but that many individual species are very rare. Four species belong to what the researchers dubbed “the billion club”, with estimated populations greater than 1 billion. They are the house sparrow, found in many parts of the world, the European starling, the ring-billed gull and the barn swallow.

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