Subject: Re: young birders/female birders
Date: Jan 4 16:13:39 1995
From: Stuart MacKay - stuart.mackay at mccaw.com


Dennis wrote,

"And speaking of age differences, how about sex? We haven't explored
in
this medium the reason why females are so underrepresented among
those of
"hotshot" birder status, even though they are overrepresented in most
groups of birders that one encounters. There are either nature or
nurture
reasons or both--any ideas? "

I am amazed by the number of female birders over here. Back "home" I
have seen more Ross's Gulls - honest. The numbers are 4 and 3, Ross's
/ female birders, respectively. It's not my place to speculate. Any
reasons forthcoming .......

Stuart
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