Volunteer Work

Note to anyone wishing to volunteer for the projects below:
BoZo requires that all volunteers sign a form regarding their medical fitness to work and their understanding of the issues involved in working on a research project. Please download the form here and hand it to the person in charge of the project when you first begin working with them. Cross out any lines that do not apply to you before signing (e.g., if you don't have a current first aid certificate, please cross that line out).

Return of the Fauna: Brown Treecreeper Reintroductions into Eucalypt Woodland
12th November 2009 to early February 2010

Help bring back the vulnerable Brown Treecreeper to Mulligans Flat and Goorooyarroo Nature Reserves in the Australian Capital Territory. This unique project will involve transporting family groups from the Murrumbidgee region in New South Wales to two reserves in Canberra from mid-November this year. This will be followed by daily radio-tracking and monitoring until mid-February.

You can help trap, band and transport birds from Wagga Wagga to Canberra during November (R or A class bander preferred) or help radio-track birds once they are released from mid-November. Radio-tracking experience preferred, but you can be trained.

Victoria Bennett
victoria.bennett@anu.edu.au
(02) 6125 6775 or 0401 883 567
http://fennerschool.anu.edu.au/people/pgstudents/bennettv.php

Communication in White-browed Scrubwren
August-December 2009

Help out on a long-term study of parent-offspring communication in White-browed Scrubwrens, one of Australia's most charismatic little brown birds! I need volunteers to help capture, band, and find the nests of White-browed Scrubwrens in the Australian National Botanic Gardens. Volunteers can be available as little as one morning a week, and still have time to get to an early class; bird banding takes place from about 6:30 - 9 a.m. No previous experience required; volunteers need only enthusiasm and attention to detail.

For more information contact:

Tonya Haff
tonya.haff@anu.edu.au
0433 312908

Trade-offs in avian sexual signalling
Fieldwork available: dates flexible, but must be available for at least two months
Visit Mornington Wildlife Sanctuary in the Kimberley, a remote region in north-west Australia to assist with this study on purple-crowned fairy-wrens. Regularly census a population of colour-banded birds, search for and monitor their nests, capture and handle birds and gain experience in focal observations of animal behaviour.

Contact: Anne Peters peters@orn.mpg.de and Michelle Hall hall@orn.mpg.de

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