Great British Deer Survey 2011 Questionnaire

The purpose of this questionnaire is to facilitate validation of the deer survey. While you are not obliged to fill in any section of the questionnaire, in doing so you will be helping to ensure that the data collected during the survey are robust and accurate. You are entitled to be informed of any competence score that may arise from the completion of this questionnaire.

Name: (Title/First Name/Surname)

Contact details: (BDS Branch, address and/or phone number).

E-mail address:

Profession / Employment: Age:

Deer related qualifications: (e.g. BDS Deer Managers Course, NSCC, DSC 1 or 2).

Interests in deer: (e.g. photography, stalking, study/research).

Time since starting interest and degree of interest

How would you rank your ability to correctly identify each deer species?

(Score 1 to 5, were 1 = very low ability and 5 = very high ability).

Red: Sika: Fallow: Roe: Muntjac: Chinese Water Deer:

Please complete and return to your Branch Recorder or to BDS Head Office.

All completed questionnaires and record sheets will be entered into a free draw to win a Scoutguard 550 Camera Trap. The draw will take place in December 2011, date TBC. Thank you.

Branch Recorder:

BDS Head Office: The British Deer Society, The Walled Garden, Burgate Manor, Fordingbridge, Hampshire, SP6 1EF or alternatively email to:

A third party contracted by the BDS will require access to the information submitted for processing and analysis. Your information will not be passed to anyone else for any other purpose other than the processing of the deer survey. If you do not wish your information to be passed to a third party for processing of the deer survey please tick here.

Occasionally, the BDS would like to contact you via e-mail to inform you of deer welfare related topics, special offers and deer stalking/management training courses. If you do not want to be contacted by the BDS for this purpose, please tick here.