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Bat Survey Internship - Baton Rouge area with occasional
fieldwork statewide
The student intern will work full time to assist the
Wildlife Disease Biologist and LDWF technicians in performing statewide bat
colony and acoustic surveys. The intern must be able to work irregular
hours (early mornings and late evenings).
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Dove Banding (Part-Time) Internship - 2 positions available
- Baton Rouge area with occasional fieldwork statewide
The student intern will work part time to assist the Upland
Migratory Study Leader in attaining local and statewide banding goals for
mourning and other dove species. The student will assist with baiting field
sites, maintain equipment, banding, sexing and ageing doves, and assisting
in other capacities as needed. The intern must be able to work irregular
hour’s (pre-dawn and post-dusk daily).
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Deer Browse Survey Internship - Alexandria / Pineville, LA
The student intern will work part time to assist the Deer
Program Manager or DMAP Coordinator in performing statewide deer browse
surveys on WMAs and other public and private lands. The student will assist
with maintaining equipment, assisting with browse surveys and other
activities as needed. The intern must be able to work irregular hours
(early mornings and late evenings).
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Waterfowl Nesting Ecology & Mourning Dove Trapping /
Banding - 2 positions available - Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge, Grand
Chenier, Louisiana
The student interns will work full time to conduct an
evaluation of artificial nest box use by BBWD and other wildlife species on
RWR. The student interns will monitor nests by conducting periodic box
checks, while also banding incubating birds. The interns will gain
experience with survey design and implementation, egg candling, and other
skills critical to the field of wildlife management. Additionally, the
interns will assist in evaluating the MODU nest predator community in
southwest Louisiana. Artificial nests will be monitored with trail cameras
and periodic nest checks. Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge staff band
several hundred mourning doves annually. The interns will have many
functional roles with the mourning dove banding program including, but not
limited to: preparing banding sites, setting and monitoring traps, baiting
traps, banding, sexing, and ageing doves, data entry, and other related
duties as assigned.
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Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge Reddish Egret GIS Internship -
Grand Chenier, Louisiana
The student intern will primarily be responsible for
maintaining a database of GPS locations and using GIS software and other
computer programs to map areas utilized by Reddish Egrets. Mapping will
consist of generating polygons to delineate natural wetlands and manmade
(i.e., dredge spoil) habitats typically used as foraging sites. In
addition, the intern will evaluate the GPS data collected during the
breeding season to estimate nesting activity from initiation to fledging.
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Frog Vocalization Data Analysis Internship - Lafayette,
Louisiana
The student intern will contribute to a project designed to
address the lack of inventory and monitoring data for anuran SGCN. Data
have been collected using ARUs across the state at historically occupied
sites and at new, potentially occupied sites selected based on habitat
availability. The student will analyze the collected call data to identify
all vocalizations and to potentially make inferences about how seasonal
dynamics affect vocalization frequency of the recorded species.
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