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December 29, 2008
BirdTrack vacancy at the BTO
The BTO is looking for a birder to take up an exciting challenge! We’re wanting to recruit a dynamic, enthusiastic and knowledgeable birder to take on the running of one of our most popular surveys. BirdTrack (www.bto.org/birdtrack) is the online bird recording scheme designed to increase the personal, local and national value of your sightings. Participants are asked to enter lists of birds recorded on a birding trip or outing, and can also use the system to enter casual records. The records can then be used by individuals for their own personal use, or by county bird recorders, or to feed into national monitoring and conservation efforts.
The key attributes we’re looking for are an excellent background knowledge of birds and birding, the ability to enthuse other birders to make full use of BirdTrack, lots of ideas for developing BirdTrack in the future, and experience in using a wide range of computing technology, especially database systems and website design.
The job will be based at the BTO’s headquarters in Thetford, and the full job particulars can be found at www.bto.org/vacancies/index.htm. For an informal chat about what the job might entail, contact Andy Musgrove or Mark Grantham at the BTO on 01842 750050. (Please quote ref BT/SB-01 in any correspondence).
You can really see how your BirdTrack records count, and the maps below show the winter distribution of Buzzard in the last winter Atlas in 1981-84 (left) and BirdTrack records submitted during the first winter's fieldwork from November to February (right).
Posted by Surfbirds at December 29, 2008 6:38 AM
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