i was writing a really long post about how a few weeks ago a man saw his 10,000th species of birds, which is:
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more than the number of species' all authorities agree on, but
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fewer than the number of species' any of the four individual authorities reports to exist
i was going to point out that over 2,500 species are endemic and restricted to an area smaller than 5 million hectares, and as a result this feat probably would not have been possible if this individual wasn't a career diplomat. i was really getting into the weeds about how and why birders in the information age tend to use the clements checklist of birds of the world whether they realize it or not, which varies from the international ornithological congress world bird list that the record was set in. i was going to point out how silly it is that there is so much disagreement about how many birds there are, and how many ornithological societies disagree about what the birds are named. it would have been interesting to a niche group of people on here.
but my browser closed and i lost it all and i do not feel like starting over lmao
