Way Off facts · 🦁 Animals
How many birds were in the largest flock ever recorded?
3.5 billion
birds
3,500,000,000 exactly, give or take
Passenger pigeons over Ontario, 1866 — a flock 500 km long that took 14 hours to pass. By 1914 the species was extinct.SOURCESmithsonian
Scale check: 3.5 billion is roughly 1 in 8 people on Earth.
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