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Message: <blockquote data-quote="james holdsworth" data-source="post: 3541032" data-attributes="member: 79864">The millenials I know don't seem to ever go outside.....It's a funny thing, the discussion about birding popularity, I just don't see it or buy it and this is based on observations around the globe, although Britain might just be completely different now. For example, I have been to tropical resorts that are known for great birding  -Gamboa for one - and often never see another birder for the whole week. At a resort on the Yucatan, with probably over 3000 people present, not another pair of binocs to be seen. Surely the percentages would indicate at least a few dozen birders in groups of this size, regardless of location / season etc. People would say that travelers are not likely to bird in such a setting but if you have an interest in birds, don't you at least bring some compacts to see Yucatan Jays or whatever lifer passes by?On top of that, things like the ABA are at near all-time low for memberships. My local reservoir, that I bird probably 100 times a year, for over 40 years now, has NEVER produced an encounter with a ''new'' birder [there are three of us, serious birders, in a city of 35,000......]</blockquote>