If it’s a numbers game, we’re in bad shape. According to most
estimates, birds number somewhere between 100 billion and 300 billion.
People top out at 6.6 billion. In fact, there are more chickens than
there are people. Start eating! As for the question “where are
they?” the most common answer is “right above my car.” But the only
scientific-ish answer is that birds are everywhere (which may be why
they scare me) but especially heavily concentrated near the South
pole. Come back next week, when we play another edition of “Crush the
One Who is Wrong.”