The Point Reyes Bird Observatory Terrestrial Research Program is accepting applications for interns to participate in two ongoing research projects at the Palomarin Field Station, Marin County California, and additional projects elsewhere in California and the Western United States. This extensive learning experience is one of the major benefits of the intern program. However, applicants should have a moderate experience with field identification of birds and some experience with field research. Furthermore, participants must be able to live in a social environment and be capable of independent as well as cooperative work. Interns are also required to complete an independent project.
Housing is limited to two bunkrooms and one communal kitchen.
Camping is not permitted. University credit can usually be obtained through internship or independent studies programs through most colleges and universities. The coastal scrub study area occupies the mesa and hills atop the bluffs immediately overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The major objective is to determine the patterns of variation in lifetime reproductive success and survival among individuals within the local populations and between the four species occupying the same environment. In addition, all other breeding species are spot mapped in order to study long term changes in the local avian community.