Job Description: The Peregrine Fund is seeking field assistants (2) to assist in research and restoration of the endangered Puerto Rican Sharp-shinned Hawk (Accipiter striatus venator) in the central mountains of Puerto Rico. The project goal is to determine the population status and number of nesting pairs, and increase the productivity through captive propagation and release of young and nest site management. Field work will be conducted from January through end of August and involves searching for territorial pairs and individuals, monitoring previously known nesting pairs, assisting in propagation activities and release of young back to the wild. The early breeding season work will require driving mountain roads and hiking in rainforests to survey and search from vantage points or look

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