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I was curious, and a random hit[0] claims there are 750-800 different species in America. So getting ~half of the total 200 years ago feels pretty good. [0] ht

• huytersd 3y ago
  In a way, I bet an ornithologist from a tropical country would envy how someone in North America can completely wrap their hands around the couple hundred species that exist there. In the tropics you probably have 800 different species in a 100 square miles.