Bird Ringing Camp Volunteering!

BIRD RINGING CAMP VOLUNTEERS WELCOME on the wild Polish Baltic Coast in October 2025. You have an opportunity to support one of the oldest bird ringing schemes of the World - Operation Baltic. You will help to handle caught birds, identify and ring them as well as with measuring, weighting and data entry tasks. You will get to know and distinguish every caught species by direct contact!

Work with Pioneers. Operation Baltic is a world-renowned bird research project going on for more than half a century. Nearly two million birds of 208 species have been ringed so far. The projest is implemented in cooperation with top Polish and Foreign universities. Operation Baltic manages the most detailed database of vertebrate measurements of the world.

What will I do? You will handle birds, taking them out of the nets. Our main duty will be to regularly check mist nets installed near the camp. We will take caught birds to the base, where they will be identified, ringed and measured. We will weight them and release back to the wild. We will register all observations made by the Ringer in a special notebook.

Our unique feature is that EVERY PARTICIPANT WILL BE TRAINED TO HANDLE AND EXTRACT BIRDS from nets because in Poland it is the very first skill that you learn when training to be a Ringer.

To Apply: send an email to Joanna at info@wildareas.net and introduce yourself shortly, explaining why you are interested in the Project and why we should choose YOU as a Participant. You will receive a detailed Information Pack and the Application Form.

Project dates: CAMP I: 06-15.10.2025, CAMP II: 22-31.10.2025

To learn more, visit our project website www.wildareas.net and Facebook: www.facebook.com/wildareas

Thank you for your interest in our work and see you soon on the camp!

Keywords: wild areas network, bird ringing, bird migration, mist netting, ornithology, wildlife volunteering, poland, operation baltic, field zoology, birding, bird ringer training