Hi everyone,
I am a final year, undergraduate student studying at the University of Brighton and currently undergoing my final year project.
My project is on "supplementary feeding and garden bird health" and I am looking for people ages 18 or over, within the UK, to complete my survey. My survey is looking to compare the feeding practices and attitudes towards garden bird health between people who feed birds and those who do not feed birds.
It should take no longer than 5 minutes to complete and I would be hugely grateful for your time taken to complete my survey.
The link to my survey is https://brighton.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/supplementary-feeding-and-garden-bird-health
Please feel free to leave any questions in the discussion below.
Thank you!
I particularly need more responses from people aged over 30's to reduce bias!
Annabel – it's never a good idea to start a survey with demographics. These questions are intrusive and dull. Always start with questions that will interest people without threatening them, and that will allow they to share what they consider are interesting things about themselves and their experience.
I can't do the survey because I live in Ireland, but I keep my bird feeders topped up and I have slowly chanced the bird population of my neighbourhood! We now have sparrows, goldfinch (which, in gaelic, have a name that translates as 'the spark in the woods') and blue tits, which we didn't have before.
Always ask questions related/focussed to achieve your objectives. For each objective, what set of questions can you ask respondents to achieve it? Questions should be clear not ambiguous. Do not ask questions that intimidate/annoy respondents. For instance, are you divorced/widowed/cause of death of husband/wife.
Yes – please tell us. I am writing this looking out at my bird buffet which has added eight bird varieties to my garden, so I'm interested to hear what you found.
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