Applicants must be prepared for
long hours, rustic accommodations, physical exertion and severe weather
Frances Willick · CBC
News · Posted: Jul 03, 2018 12:00 PM AT | Last Updated: July 3
It could be a trip of a lifetime
or your worst nightmare: being stuck on an isolated island for weeks at a time
with no running water or electricity, rustic shared accommodations and
potential exposure to extreme weather.
The volunteer application for a study on rare
birds warns applicants of the position's challenges: "If you cannot take
isolation, communal living, long hours, physical exertion, bugs, the heat, the
cold, irregular supplies of fresh food, or primitive working conditions, this
may not be the right job for you."
Researchers from Oxford
University and Acadia University are travelling to Seal Island and Bon Portage
Island to study why rare birds end up off the coast of mainland Nova Scotia and
whether they make it back to their fall migration destinations.
Lucinda Zawadzki, a
PhD student at Oxford, explains that since rare birds are by definition
infrequent visitors, "nobody really has an understanding of why or how
they get here."
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