Almost 750,000 Gen Z Britons are now regularly birdwatching, and the RSPB has the receipts. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds dropped its multi-year survey on May 1, 2026, with one number that does not need a chart to land. Birdwatching among 16 to 29 year olds is up 1,088 percent since 2018. That is a comma in a place that comma does not normally live. The hobby is now the second fastest growing pastime for the generation, beaten only by jewellery making, which is a sentence we did not expect to type in a year that also gave us AI subway ads getting sued by the This Is Fine guy. The numbers come from a Fifty5Blue survey commissioned by the RSPB and published ahead of International Dawn Chorus Day, the first Sunday of May. Across all generations, regular birdwatching is up 47 percent over eight years, more than four million extra people pointing binoculars at a robin. Millennials are up 216 percent. Gen X is up 66 percent. Gen Z is the rocket, but the whole rocket pad is on fire.…