Birding Is a Much (Much) Bigger Industry Than You Knew

Photo caption: A woman birding at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge in Virginia. Photo credit: John and Karen Hollingsworth USFWS. Article by Kiley Price. Inside Climate News – December 13, 2024.

In 2022, around 96 million people in the U.S. closely observed, photographed or tried to identify birds in the wild—activities known broadly as birding. For context, that means more than 35 percent of the country’s population aged 16 and over are birders. It turns out this staggeringly popular hobby adds up, according to a November report from the […]

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