Birding Survey
Hi Folks
I am still gathering responses to my birder survey. I would like more
responses. This service has 450 member, I have 87 responses 19.3%. We
can do better than that. I have sent out 34 personal reminders and if
they all responded that would bring us up to 27%,
It doesn’t matter how many or few towns you visit, the important
information is in the collective results. Everyone is important.
It may encourage people to respond by providing some preliminary
results. I hesitate to give too much information since it might bias
future respondents.
So PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE SEND IN YOUR RESPONSES
Dennis Varza
Fairfield
Connecticut has 168 towns
There were:
17 towns with no observations
72 towns with a rating of 1 to 6
54 towns with a rating of 7 to 18
18 towns with a rating of 19 to 30
The Top 10 Towns were:
Madison 89
Milford 68
Stratford 58
New Haven 56
West Haven 40
Litchfield 37
Westport 36
Old Saybrook 30
South Windsor 29
Old Lyme 29
If we assume all of Madison is due to Hammonasset St. Park and the 87
respondents are representative of the 450 people on this list then we
have these estimates
respondents
Total 47 54.0% 243 visitors
Rate (1) 18 20.7% 98 visitors
Rate (2) 16 18.3% 83 visitors
Rate (3) 13 14.9% 67 visitors
This information might be useful for park managers and arguements
about protecting habitat.
Dennis -
A great project, and one that could be very valuable to us in the future.
You did get my response, right? ;-)
Once you have the numbers of respondents and the towns they visit, can you
relate that proportion of the 450 members of CT Birds to the larger number
of total birders in CT, and thus arrive at an even larger number of unique
visitors to a place like Hammonasset Beach S.P.?
The American Birding Association membership list breaks down their members
by state, and I would hope that organizations like CAS, the NHBC, and
Hartford Audubon, as well as the various NAS chapters, would at least give
you their membership numbers (no names or addresses needed). While there
would likely be some duplication of names, any out-of-state members would
help skew the numbers back to even. It might help in painting a clearer
picture of birding activity in CT.
Clay Taylor
Moodus, CT
ctaylor@att.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Varza" dennisvz@optonline.net
To: "Posting Bird List" ctbirds@lists.ctbirding.org
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 9:05 AM
Subject: [CT Birds] Birding Survey
Hi Folks
I am still gathering responses to my birder survey. I would like more
responses. This service has 450 member, I have 87 responses 19.3%. We
can do better than that. I have sent out 34 personal reminders and if
they all responded that would bring us up to 27%,
It doesn’t matter how many or few towns you visit, the important
information is in the collective results. Everyone is important.
It may encourage people to respond by providing some preliminary
results. I hesitate to give too much information since it might bias
future respondents.
So PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE SEND IN YOUR RESPONSES
Dennis Varza
Fairfield
Connecticut has 168 towns
There were:
17 towns with no observations
72 towns with a rating of 1 to 6
54 towns with a rating of 7 to 18
18 towns with a rating of 19 to 30
The Top 10 Towns were:
Madison 89
Milford 68
Stratford 58
New Haven 56
West Haven 40
Litchfield 37
Westport 36
Old Saybrook 30
South Windsor 29
Old Lyme 29
If we assume all of Madison is due to Hammonasset St. Park and the 87
respondents are representative of the 450 people on this list then we
have these estimates
respondents
Total 47 54.0% 243 visitors
Rate (1) 18 20.7% 98 visitors
Rate (2) 16 18.3% 83 visitors
Rate (3) 13 14.9% 67 visitors
This information might be useful for park managers and arguements
about protecting habitat.
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