From edwhisler530 at comcast.net Tue Aug 3 14:52:02 2010 From: edwhisler530 at comcast.net (Ed Whisler) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 11:52:02 -0700 Subject: [YoloBBA] FW: [CVBirds] Seeking volunteers for Hummingbird Studies near Davis Message-ID: <000301cb333c$f64f7d50$e2ee77f0$@net> For those of you who are not on the Central Valley Bird Club list-serve. Ed Whisler Davis, CA 916-204-0471 cell From: central_valley_birds at yahoogroups.com [mailto:central_valley_birds at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of hollyernest Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 9:44 AM To: central_valley_birds at yahoogroups.com Subject: [CVBirds] Seeking volunteers for Hummingbird Studies near Davis We are seeking volunteers to help with hummingbird studies in the Davis (Yolo/Solano counties) area for ecological, conservation genetics, and disease epidemiology research. Banding sessions will begin Aug 25 at 5:50am, then Sept 15 at 6am, then perhaps 1-2 more sessions this fall through Oct, then resuming in ~January/Feb 2011 and going every two weeks through Oct 2011. Volunteer meeting(s) will be held. Sessions start 40 minutes before sunrise and end about 6 hours later (~noon-1pm currently but later as sunrise is later). Volunteers are needed for that entire 6-7 hour time frame. Currently we're aiming for Wednesdays. The type of volunteers we seek are dedicated, responsible, thoughtful, patient, and calm adults who enjoy the beauty of hummingbirds and will pledge to attend the entirety of each session for at least first ~8 sessions, then at least every other session after that. We want people who will plan to be regularly involved for a least a year, and preferably longer since there is some training involved. Volunteer tasks include writing data into forms for the bander, helping at the capture nets. Volunteers will help set up and take down capture equipment (nets around feeders), input data, assist the bander, sit at traps to help capture birds, act as go-fers as needed, and other tasks. Also there may be needs for volunteers to maintain feeders at other times during the week. Volunteers need good manual dexterity for helping to handle hummingbirds and good eye sight for inputting data in detailed forms and viewing tiny features on hummingbirds. Ability to lift and move equipment (with help from others) - probably about 20-ish pounds (sometimes heavier - but we all work together on heavy stuff). Volunteers need their own car transportation to get to field site and should live within ~ 30-40 minutes of Davis (preferably in Davis/Dixon/Winters/Woodland area). Volunteers will learn about hummingbird biology and the exciting conservation research they will be assisting. Check out our (still rudimentary) hummingbird web site: http://hummingbirds.ucdavis.edu/ If this sounds like something you are interested in, please contact me and I'll tell you more. Look forward to hearing from you! Holly -- Holly Ernest DVM PhD Assoc. Professor in Residence Wildlife Population Health & Genetics 258 CCAH; One Shields Avenue School of Veterinary Medicine University of California, Davis hbernest at ucdavis.edu http://www.vgl.ucdavis.edu/wildlife __._,_.___ Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post | Start a New Topic Messages in this topic (1) Recent Activity: . New Members 3 . New Photos 4 Visit Your Group MARKETPLACE Hobbies & Activities Zone: Find others who share your passions! Explore new interests. _____ Get great advice about dogs and cats. Visit the Dog & Cat Answers Center. _____ Stay on top of your group activity without leaving the page you're on - Get the Yahoo! Toolbar now. Yahoo! Groups Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest . Unsubscribe . Terms of Use . __,_._,___ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: