In the posting Mike Smith forwarded, P. A. Buckley wrote:

> The following is a preliminary announcement of an exciting position on one
> of the most spectacular barrier beaches on the East Coast, where hundreds
> of thousands of migrating birds of all kinds regularly pass by in spring
> and fall, and where such luminaries as SMITH'S LONGSPUR, FORK-TAILED FLY
> (2X), BELL'S VIREO, YELLOW RAIL, WESTERN FLYCATCHER, ASH-THROATED
> FLYCATCHER, AUDUBON'S WARBLER, SAY'S PHOEBE, NORTHEN
> WHEATEAR,BLACK-THROATED GREY WARBLER, LARK BUNTING, among others, are
> routinely looked for

Any bander worth their salt would be more interested in the hundreds of thousands of birds rather than a handful of obscure rarities. It's quantity
not qaulity that counts when banding ;-)

[munch, munch]

> The successful candidate MUST have demonstrable
> experience in handling up to 30 mistnets simultaneously

I find the concept of large numbers of birds and 30 mist nets to be particularly horrifying - certainly the stuff I'd have nightmares about.
I hope the field crew are really experienced - I'd hate to have 30 mist nets
full of migrants and only 10 people to deal with them ;-)

> be capable of working independently; be organized,
> neat, detail-oriented, and punctual; be able to follow data protocols
> exactly, and to direct numbers of asssistants in the same manner. Thus,
> provable supervisory and delegatory success is required. This is a
> high-visibility, public-sensitive position; maturity and responsibility are
> paramount.

Well that certainly rules out all the banders I've ever met.

> Because these experience requirements override other
> considerations, this position is potentially fillable by anyone who meets
> them, from a secondary school graduate to a post-doc.

Well, if I wasn't doing something else - I'd jump at this one. A whole summer
banding anything and everything I could get my hands on, hmmm....

Don't suppose there are any sanderling about ????

Stuart