This subject contains a 4 day Compulsory Residential School.
This subject contains a compulsory 4 day residential school, where students gain a range of hands-on practical skills and techniques used commonly in the field of ornithology. During the residential school, students acquire practical skills in setting up mist-nets, extracting birds from mist-nests, handling, measuring and banding birds, measuring bird diversity and abundance and how to study bird nest survival, morphology, anatomy and taxonomy.
Through these applied and hands-on activities students will gain the necessary practical and technical skills to undertake field work/research as a professional ornithologist.