Spain: Volunteering Opportunities in a Research Group, Project on Social Environment and Cognition

Spain: Volunteering Opportunities in a Research Group, Project on Social Environment and Cognition

Volunteering opportunities!
Work with us Volunteers needed. If you are a student in biology, natural science or veterinary, and would like a work experience in a research group, you may be interested in joining us for a few weeks to help with our captive crows, in our project on social environment and cognition.

Who we are looking for
Motivated, responsible students interested in animal behaviour and birds, and willing to work with us for a minimum of three weeks at any time of the year. They should be at ease working in a group, and reasonably fluent in Spanish, Italian or English. Experience with captive animals is welcome, but it is not strictly needed. Volunteers will participate in the following tasks: interacting with our crows to habituated them to human presence, feeding and caring for them, analysing parasite load, and collecting behavioural data.

What we offer (and where)
Our aviaries and field station are located in a small village of “La Sobarriba”, a rural area 15 km away from the city of León (Spain). Flight connections to León (via Madrid) and Valladolid (via London Stansted or Milan) are available through low-cost flight companies. The surroundings are beautiful and represent a Spanish traditional low intensity agricultural landscape (read more in “study area“) perfect for bird watching. Our field station is in the village of Solanilla (where some members of our group live permanently) at walking distance to the aviaries.

We offer free accommodation in our field station (a house in Solanilla village with 3 bedrooms, kitchen, bathroom with washing machine, and back garden) to students willing to have an experience in our research project.

A certificate of participation will be provided at the end of the stay.
Applications by students who wish to carry out a master thesis with us may also be considered.

How to apply
Send us an email ( info[ at ]cooperativecrows.com ) telling us the motivation of your application, the time you wish to spend in our field station, your complete CV, and a presentation letter from your professor/tutor.

Via: official announcement