[Kayleigh]

Originally Posted by rainmaker

Lets take a heavy starling instead, eh?

4300 tons = 4,300,000Kg
1 heavy starling = 0.085 Kg
4,300,000kg of starling = 50,588,235 individuals. Per year.

or

138,597 per day

or

5774 per hour

or

96 per minute.

That's a lot of budgie!

I take it they mean that's the whole intake of the sparrowhawk population of the world?!!

And what are the statistics for cats killing birds.