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Peter Shute
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From: Corey Callaghan
Sent: Thursday, 1 February 2018 7:00 AM
To:
Subject: Socioeconomic impact of vagrant Aleutian Terns in Australia
Hi everyone!
I'm a PhD candidate at UNSW Sydney with Professor Richard Kingsford.
One of my research interests is quantifying and demonstrating the economic
impact of us birders, because ultimately this needs to be balanced against
environmental threats that destroy bird habitats, such as development. This is
a difficult task - especially when it comes to pulsed and incredibly
unpredictable vagrant bird sightings! I have recently studied this aspect in
one instance in the United States and you can read more about that here:
https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/bird-bush-worth-223851-hand.
Luckily, the Aleutian Terns first found at Old Bar by Liam Murphy have been
long-staying and obliging for many Australian birders. Richard Kingsford, Ian
Benson, myself, and others are interested in quantifying the socioeconomic
impact of the long-staying Aleutian Terns at Old Bar, NSW.
We are using a survey to collect sociodemographic variables of birders who went
to see the birds.
The link is here: https://goo.gl/forms/OS41U2VLlimvS3Hw1
<https://goo.gl/forms/OS41U2VLlimvS3Hw1>
I ask that if you saw the terns at Old Bar if you would please consider taking
the survey. It only takes less than 10 minutes and is completely anonymous. It
would certainly help my research! Further, please share with your birding
networks, as we hope to capture as many people as possible who went and saw the
birds.
Any questions, feel free to email me at
<> .
Thank you in advance!
Corey
P.S. I thank those who have already seen and partook in the survey!
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