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The Economic Value of Birds
Some economists report that insects consume or destroy up to 10 percent of an industrialized nation’s gross national product and up to 25 percent of developing nations’. Despite the fact that this number seems staggering, it could very well be more than twice as much if it weren’t for birds. Birds consume such an amazing [...]
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