Salary: $1,600-$2,000/mo DOE. Start Date: 04/01/2015. Description: We seek field assistants for a research project investigating the effects of habitat and landscape configuration on ring-necked pheasant behavior and demography in east-central Illinois. Duties include but are not limited to, assisting in pheasant adult and brood capture and transmitter attachment, homing and triangulation of birds via radio-telemetry, and quantifying habitat conditions throughout the breeding season. Data entry using MS Access will be required as well.

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