Learn or further develop your mist-netting, bird banding, bird handling, bird ageing and Neotropical bird identification skills in one of the most exuberantly natural surroundings on Earth.
The Asociacion Fauna Forever (AFF, http://faunaforever.org) and Center for Ornithology and Biodiversity (CORBIDI, http://corbidi.org), two Peruvian not-for-profit conservation organisations, are proud to announce the next set of Bird Ringing Forever courses (BRF, http://birdringingforever.org) to be held in June and November in the rainforests of Tambopata, Amazonian Peru. Course 1: 3rd - 11th Jun 2011 Course 2: 16th - 24th Nov 2011 Course fee: US$1,000 per person A limited number of scholarships, offering reductions of 20-75% in the course fee, are available to promising candidates from around the world. To apply, please send us (along with your application form) a cover letter explaining your interest in the scholarships, a copy of your Curriculum Vitae, and the name of two people we can contact for a professional reference, to: [email protected] Volunteer opportunities on the Bird Team of the Fauna Forever Tambopata project are also available around the above dates, allowing time to put into practise the banding skills learnt (see http://www.faunaforever.org/fft/volunteer.html). See you all in the Amazon! All the best, Chris Kirkby ________________________________ Managing Director and Principal Investigator Asociacion Fauna Forever, PO Box 103, Carretera Tambopata Km 1.5, Puerto Maldonado, PERU Tel/Cel: +51 (0)1 2715697 / +51 993915158 E-mail: [email protected] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FaunaForever Twitter: http://twitter.com/faunaforever Web: http://faunaforever.org, http://birdringingforever.org Skype: cotomono
