Interesting that HBW repeats the claim for Wilson's Storm Petrel and
then indicates there are around 2 million known breeding pairs -
compared to 5.6 million pairs for Tasmanian population of Short-tailed
Shearwater and 11.6 million pairs for Macaroni Penguin. Unfortunately
the volumes covering sparrows and starlings are a few years away!
On 11/10/2007, david taylor <> wrote:
> Fisher (1951), a British ornithologist, estimated there are more than
> 100
> billion individual wild birds in the world. The Wilson's Storm-petrel,
> Oceanites oceanicus, a seabird, is probably the most numerous wild
> bird in
> the world, and the starling and the house sparrow may by the most
> abundant
> wild land birds (Fisher, 1951). Obviously, this is an estimate, but an
> educated one.
>
>
>
> David Taylor
>
>
>
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