Volunteers Needed for Bird Surveys - Florida Panhandle
Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission sent this bulletin at 03/23/2017 01:55 PM EDT(Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page.)
Volunteers are needed to conduct avian monitoring activities on Apalachicola Bluffs and Ravines Preserve, and Torreya State Park in the Florida panhandle. Volunteers will assist an FWC biologist hired to perform the post-restoration monitoring on selected sites in support of the Multistate Sandhills Ecological Restoration Project Phase 3. This project is a collaborative wildlife habitat restoration effort between the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana and South Carolina, which is supported by a grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s State Wildlife Grant Program and funding from various conservation partners.
Volunteer Requirements:
- Walk through sandhill habitat,
- Navigate using GPS to find monitoring points,
- Identify bird species by call as per Hamel et al. (1996) (each point count will survey an area encircled by a 250m diameter around the point), and
- Work independently at times.
Survey Period:
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April 15 – June 20, 2017
Contacts:
- Biologist conducting surveys: Annie Schmidt, monotropa@aol.com, 813-334-7379.
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FWC supervisor of project: Heather Hitt, Heather.Hitt@myfwc.com, 772-469-4267.