Bird Watching

Synonyms / Other Terms Used

Birding, Bird-watching Site, Watching Birds, Flamingo Watching

Category

Activities, Nature, Natural Attractions, Recreation, Tourism

Message / Function

For notice in general and to indicate the possibility of bird watching

	Source	Description
	Québec	Two birds, side view of human figure looking through telescope
	NYC BBP	Human figure looking through binoculars, flying bird in viewing direction
	Luis Prado	Clipped side view of human figure looking through telescope, bird standing on telescope
	Castilla y León	Two flying birds, binoculars below
	Juicy Fish	Frontal view of binoculars with bird in side view, standing on it
	Argentina SSTN	Two overlapping filled circles, flying bird inside
	Bolivia	Two overlapping filled circles, flying bird inside
	Arthur Schmitt	Two overlapping filled circles, bird inside
	Ecuador	Side view of standing flamingo

Note: Some of the examples shown above were mirrored horizontally to contrast differences.

Discussion

The set of symbols above already indicates that possibly no single visual stereotype exists concerning this referent. Basically one will find the following concepts in use to indicate the activity of bird watching:

A human figure looking through binoculars or a telescope, one or several birds
Binoculars or a telescope in combination with one or several birds
Frontal view of binoculars with bird in side view, standing on it
Two overlapping filled circles with a bird inside depicting the view through binoculars
Images of standing or flying birds

Even though the latter can be found quite often when searching the internet for pictograms regarding Birding or Bird Watching, we included just one example, as we do not expect this type of image content to be highly comprehensible.

In our research we did not discover any test data on comprehensibility of pictograms used to indicate Bird Watching.

Recommendations

Due to the fact that no data concerning comprehensibility of any pictogram variant is available, we recommend to collect or design more pictograms, and to conduct research using the Comprehensibility Estimation procedure for eliminating poor variants and identifying the best of the set available, followed by a Comprehension Test. These studies should deliver useful data for recommending one or several pictograms. Detailed information about the most frequent responses given in each of the response categories of the Comprehension Test should be provided to correctly judge comprehensibility and improve designs.

Tests of pictograms of referent Bird Watching

No data from research or tests is available in our database.