Job Announcement
Senior Field Assistant: Black-capped Vireo Monitoring Project
Fort Sill Military Reservation, Lawton, OK. Of Fort Sill's
94,000 acres, 14,600 are occupied by Black-capped Vireos.
1 May - 31 July 2010. I may be able to accommodate a one
week shift (later) for a strong candidate.
Core task: Monitoring the reproductive success of a sampling of
the 625 breeding pairs of Black-capped Vireos of Fort Sill ...not
less than 24 territories (up to 32). In addition, you may be asked
to assist in mist-netting, and in late season survey overlapping
effort to fill in data gaps especially as to age structure.
Skills: It is essential that your hearing is impeccable. Black-capped
Vireos are somewhat inconspicuous in many of their habits and
the key to finding them is the study of their many vocalizations
Much of your training will be spent on this one facet. Ideally,
you will have experience finding nests of songbirds in field/brush/
scrub habitats. Ideally, you have some experience in reading
topo maps or otherwise the use of GPS. Ideally, you will have
had some experience mist-netting songbirds.Training and
equipment will be supplied but the strong candidate will be
experienced in these matters.
You will need binoculars. Ideally you will have a cell phone,
and a personal computer is desirable but not required.
It is essential that you are physically fit. You will be back-
packing across rocky mountainous terrain on a near
daily basis. June-July temperatures routinely range 96-106
degrees in the shade (and we rarely work in the shade).
Zoom in on this map of Black-capped Vireo distribution
for a sense of the terrain. http://tinyurl.com/yeo5kmr
Workload: Nest monitoring is completed on a 10-day rotation
where normally you work 8 in every ten days - 8 hrs in the field
each of those days (perhaps 10 hrs during training/orientation).
The workload is heavy at first but as the season progresses falls
off. A few reproductive attempts may continue into early August,
but typically data summaries are the focus by late July.
Compensation:
Salary: $2100 a month for 3 months.
Mileage: generally you will car pool, but should you be required to
use your vehicle, you will receive a mileage payment of $0.40/mile.
Free Housing: free furnished apt housing in downtown Lawton
with AC/internet/sat. TV.
Travel stipend: $400 to cover something of the cost of getting
to and from Oklahoma.
Performance Bonus: The integrity and thoroughness of the data is
crucial. Many elements of the USFWS and the Department of the
Army scrutinize our work. Depending on the quality of this work,
a performance bonus of $300 may be awarded at the end of the
season.
Perks: This is a very birdy part of Oklahoma. Hackberry Flat W.M.A.
an hour to the sw. is a 7000 acre restored wetland that may support
30,000 shorebirds in May. The Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge is
immediately adjacent to Fort Sill and offers a different suite of birds.
The Wichitas are at the very border of eastern and western avifaunas
There are many hybrid combinations and plumages to be studied here,
perhaps more than anywhere else in the US. There are many of
opportunities for personal research.
Resumes are desired in either pdf or Word 2003 format. Submission
deadline is 1 March 2010.
This project is administered by Black Swamp Bird Observatory,
and the successful candidate will be under contract with BSBO.
Vic Fazio
PI: Black-capped Vireo Monitoring Project 2007-2011,
Fort Sill M.R., Lawton, OK.
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