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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fugl" data-source="post: 1578317" data-attributes="member: 816">Fair enough—I didn’t realize numerical data on British birding was so hard to come by.  As far as the ABA is concerned, 10,000 (if that’s the correct figure) is not a very large number given the US population, & the ABAs importance in the overall scheme of things is easy to exaggerate.  Where I live, Audubon Society membership probably outnumbers that of the ABA by a factor of 10 or more & my guess is that there are more local bird photographers with no birding affiliation of any kind than hard-core listers sending in their totals for publication in the ABA magazine.  Somebody more knowledgeable might correct me on this, but I believe that nationally ABA numbers may actually be declining & I know there’s been recent concern about the ageing of the membership.Fortunately, not a lot rides on any of this. . .</blockquote>