Toucan Ridge Ecology and Education Society
The Toucan Ridge Ecology and Education Society (T.R.E.E.S), Hummingbird Highway, Middlesex, Belize
Session: September 15th - October 31st, 2025
Hours per week: 35 – 40
Location: Mile 27. 5 Hummingbird Highway, Stann Creek District. Belize, C.A.
Experience required: none
Openings : 4
Description :
The Toucan Ridge Bird Observatory, located at the T.R.E.E.S Research Center in the Maya Mountains of Belize, currently has 4 apprenticeship spots open for our Fall 2024 Bird Banding Apprenticeship Program. This internship focuses primarily on how to set-up mist-nets, extract passerine birds from mist-nets, learn proper bird banding techniques, learn how to I.D., age and sex tropical resident birds as well as Neotropical migrants, learn proper data entry, and more.
Interns will also learn how to conduct bird transect surveys, point counts, nest searching, and other wildlife sampling techniques. As bird banding is usually done in the morning, there are also smaller side projects to do in the afternoon. There are opportunities to work...