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There are also at least 2 orders of magnitude more species of insects on Earth than of birds (>1 million compared with ~10,000). An amateur birder can know a si
by Thrymr 6y ago
There are also at least 2 orders of magnitude more species of insects on Earth than of birds (>1 million compared with ~10,000). An amateur birder can know a significant fraction of all birds, and all of them commonly found in their location, while no entomologist is anywhere close to knowing all insects.
- ImaCake 6y agoAbsolutely, a good point. I would think for the particularly avid birder that you could probably memorize all of them. We certainly have larger vocabularies than that!