Survey Force Volunteer

Purpose of your role: To assist with habitat and species surveying and monitoring on Warwickshire Wildlife Trust nature reserves.

Surveys you will be involved with:

• Botany (national vegetation classification and habitat condition)
• Pond /amphibian
• Invertebrates (butterflies, dragonflies and moths)
• Birds and breeding bird populations
• Small mammals
• Fungi

Bioblitz Survey Force is our volunteer group who carry out surveys on Warwickshire Wildlife Trust nature reserves. As a Survey Force volunteer, you have the option to join our regular larger group sessions which take place on alternate Mondays* during the survey season (April–September) or if you would prefer and opportunities are available, you may survey by yourself or in smaller groups at a Warwickshire Wildlife Trust nature reserve of your choice at a time more suited to you (please note that the exception to this is that some surveys are required to be done at certain times of the day and year).

Alternatively; you may choose to do a mixture of both the larger group and individual surveying. For more information, please get in contact and we will be happy to discuss the various options with you.

*For volunteers wanting to join our Monday sessions, we either leave Brandon Marsh Nature Centre in the minibus at 10:00 am and head to a reserve to carry out the survey or arrange to meet at the site to be surveyed (in which case details of meet times and locations will be provided separately). Please note this is an approximate guide and survey sessions may be arranged on different days and times as required.

We also run various workshops to train people in identification skills and how to carry out surveys. The workshops are usually free to attend on the condition that attendees use their new skills to survey a reserve in their own time. If we are unable to provide appropriate surveying opportunities, we may be able to direct you to other organisations who can assist.