Bird Fair – favourite things

I’ve closed the questionnaire on Bird Fair speakers – watch this space. But one of the questions asked was ‘What was your favourite moment of the 2018 Bird Fair?’.

Here are lists of answers for men and women separately. I’ve tabulated the answers that scored more than one mention from each gender. This has to be slightly subjective because one is dealing with free text. Only respondents who attended this year were included (not surprisingly). Also note the number of respondents;  Male (96), Female (81).

Bird Fair 2018 - men's favourite things

Meeting people20
Chris Packham8
Ruth Peacey5
Ringing demo5
Iolo Williams5
Dick Forsman4
Friday debate4
BPOTY4
Plastics debate3
Young conservationists3
Leaving3
Sir John Lister Kaye2
Mark Avery2
More space than usual2
Tim Birkhead2
All of it2
Seeing a Red-necked Phalarope2

Bird Fair 2018 - women's favourite things

Meeting people13
Friday debate11
Plastics debate6
Chris Packham5
Wild Zone4
Dick Forsman3
Ruth Miller3
Iolo Williams3
BPOTY3
Seeing an Osprey2
Ruth Peacey2
Women in ornithology2
Ringing demo2
Simon King2
Mark Carwardine2

The social aspect of the Bird Fair comes out top in both lists – are there any consequences of this?

Many of the ‘main’ events in the Events Marquee are listed- especially debates and inspiring talks and speakers.  Celebrity speakers are often mentioned as a, or the, favourite moment.

Nobody mentioned buying a holiday although buying new optics was mentioned. In fact, spending money in any way didn’t get many mentions.

I was glad to see birds getting a mention – Red-necked Phalarope and Osprey and the Ringing Demo.

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2 Replies to “Bird Fair – favourite things”

  1. Interesting how more men than women enjoyed seeing Chris Packham and debates came higher up the women’s list . Sad to see that the Wild Zone only got a mention from the women.

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