Senior Woodland Bird Monitor – Celtic Rainforest LIFE with RSPB

Wildlife Film Network Group; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

A conservation organization in the United Kingdom seeks a dedicated professional for a full-time role focusing on woodland bird surveys in Mid and North Wales. The successful candidate should excel in identifying birds by sound and sight while demonstrating strong spatial awareness and navigational skills. This fixed-term position supports the restoration of vital EU-funded projects and will involve working in diverse woodland environments.

Qualifications

• Expertise in identifying woodland birds by sound and sight required.
• Capacity to conduct surveys using territory mapping.
• Ability to navigate effectively using maps and GPS.

Responsibilities

• Conduct surveys of woodland birds to record populations.
• Identify all calling and singing birds in the area.
• Utilize territory mapping to track bird activity and locations.

Skills

Excellent bird identification by sound

Good spatial awareness

Navigational skills

Tools

Maps

Compass

GPS

Job description

Salary: £30,075.00 – £32,108.00 Per Annum
Terms: Fixed Term, 5 months, Full-time, 37.5 hours per week
Location: RSPB Ynys-hir, covering Mid and North Wales
The Celtic rainforest LIFE project (CRLIFE), is an EU funded project that is restoring protected Western Atlantic oak woods of European importance for nature conservation. Surveying woodland birds is reliant on locating and identifying all calling and singing birds, which are seldom seen. The post holder will therefore need to be excellent at identifying woodland birds by sound as well as sight. The surveys will be carried out using territory mapping to record populations of all woodland bird species and applicants will therefore need good spatial awareness and navigational skills, using maps, compass and GPS to locate study plots and accurately map the bird activity and locations.