For those who might be interested. . . .

Diane Bagues
Milwaukie, Oregon
dbagues at teleport.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Weintraub" <JWeintraub at Fullerton.edu>
To: <Calbird at Kiwi.net>
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 9:04 PM
Subject: [CALBIRD] Birder Survey


> Not another one you say.... but I'm urging you to help out with this
> one. Sarah Hume is an Orange County birder who is trying to
> finish her Environmental Studies degree at Cal State Fullerton.
> Right now she is on the east coast.... so we came up with a
> Master's thesis that investigates the impact of electronic birding
> (RBAs, lists) on birder behaviors. She and her husband have set
> up a website to automatically record people's responses..... and
> today was the first day that several listservs that cater to birders
> ran their plea. She told me that over 120 people have already filled
> out the survey...and we hope the sample size will be well over 500.
> I've already asked the 250 names on my Orange County List to
> participate.... and I'm asking Calbirders to also spend the 10
> minutes of time necessary to fill this survey in. Not only will you
> help a student achieve her goals, but we may all be helping
> ourselves trying to show the impact we have outside of the birding
> community. We will summarize the results and post them on the
> Internet. If you run an electronic RBA, I request that you run the
> note below for your members.... thanks in advance. Here's what
> went out to several listservs...
>
> thanks.... Joel Weintraub, Cal State Fullerton
> JWeintraub at Fullerton.edu
>
> Two graduate students, Sarah Hume and Douglas Hume,
> are conducting a survey of birders, who use electronic
> rare bird alerts, to study how electronic rare bird
> alerts have impacted the behavioral, identity, actions,
> emotions, and other aspects of birders. This study will
> also try to determine how these changes in behavior
> effect local economies. This electronic survey is
> strictly confidential. The website of the survey is:
>
> http://members.aol.com/lithicat/survey.htm
>
> If you have any questions or concerns you can contact
> Sarah and Douglas at d.hume at uconn.edu.
>