Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 15:56:00 -0700 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Charlie Subject: Fwd: Costa Rica bird monitoring opportunity Comments: To: Birdchat MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi folks, This was sent to me, but, alas, I am not available. I thought some of you out there may be. Appologies to any who are offended by cross-posting. Charlie -- INTERNSHIPS Available for Bird Monitoring in Costa Rica-- Openings are now available for the Fall 2000 season at a bird monitoring station on a coastal Caribbean town beginning 1 Aug and continuing at least through mid-Dec. Participants are expected to have experience in identifying birds, and they usually have removed from mist nets and processed at least 200 landbirds. The minimum length of stay is usually one month. All volunteers receive their room and board while they are staying at the station of the Caribbean Conservation Corporation, Estacion Biologica, in the lovely coastal Caribbean town of Tortuguero. We and our collaborators in Costa Rica have been operating five monitoring stations near the village for six years. We operate mist nets for resident and migrant species and conduct migration censuses of the millions of diurnal migrants moving along the coast. Volunteers are responsible for their own travel to and from Costa Rica. Primary Banders, those who have extensive experience operating a capture and monitoring station, can be awarded up to half their airfare. Please send an indication of your interest, number of birds extracted and processed from mist nets, level of experience in bird identification, dates of availability, and names and phone numbers of references. If you have any questions, send them to DR. C. JOHN RALPH (email: cjr2@humboldt.edu or cralph@fs.fed.us Phone:707-825-2992; fax: 707-825-2901), U.S.F orest Service, Redwood Sciences Laboratory, 1700 Bayview Drive, Arcata, California 95521. ===== **************************************** Charlie Muise, Naturalist Frostburg, Maryland, USA And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords - Alan Wilson= Watts __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail =96 Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ ========================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ========================================================================= ===========================================================================