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Skills that get you hired

• Species identification by sight and sound

  Bird song identification alone can get you onto survey crews every spring.

• Mapping software

  Geographic information systems. Almost every wildlife report is a map plus an argument.

• Statistics and the R programming language

  Occupancy and abundance models are the core analysis in the field.

• Animal handling and telemetry

  Netting, collaring and tracking. Learned on crews, not in class.