Volunteer orientation for bird banding assistants

Lincoln Land Association of Bird Banders is looking for new volunteers to assist with their bird banding operations. A volunteer orientation session will be offered on Wednesday, March 23, at 6:30 p.m. at the Trutter Center on the Lincoln Land Community College Campus in Springfield. LLABB is a group of dedicated and licensed banders and trained volunteers who love birds and want to further the science of our native birds.

While the actual banding of birds for scientific data requires a USGS federal permit, we have a variety of other positions that will broaden your knowledge of the avian spec...