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 â but that many individual species are very rare.
Four species belong to what the researchers dubbed âthe billion clubâ, 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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