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Thursday January 2, 2025

Job Posting: Pinyon Jay Seasonal Avian Technician

Location: Southern Idaho Time Period: variable, Feb-June 2025 Salary: $18-19.50/hour DOE Last Date to Apply:…

Thursday January 2, 2025

Job Posting: Utah Avian Field Technician

Location: Utah Time Period: 5/5/25 to 7/11/25 Salary: $18 – $19.50/hour, DOE Last Date to…

Tuesday February 6, 2024

Job Posting: Grassland Bird Community Technician

NOTE: this is an inactive job posting from a previous season. We often hire for…

Tuesday February 6, 2024

Job Posting: Montana and Idaho Avian Point Count Technicians

NOTE: this is an inactive job posting from a previous season. We often hire for…

Wednesday November 1, 2023

The Tipping Point for Motus in the West?

This year proved to be another exciting one for the Motus Wildlife Tracking System network in the West as IBO continues to partner with MPG Ranch. Our hopes and dreams of creating a sort of “domino effect” in the Intermountain West are turning into reality!

Wednesday November 1, 2023

Camas National Wildlife Refuge: How has Migration Changed?

Between fall 2005 and spring 2007, IBO measured an impressive volume and diversity of migrant birds that were using Camas NWR. But in the years since then, the refuge has conspicuously changed, perhaps most notably the vegetation community.

Friday December 30, 2022

Job Posting: Northern Goshawk Technician Utah and Wyoming 2023

We need a two person team to complete Northern Goshawk survey work during the summer of 2023 (11 weeks: May 28th – August 12th).

Thursday December 29, 2022

Job Posting: Northern Great Plains Grassland Bird Survey Technician

GRASSLAND AVIAN SURVEY TECHNICIAN (4) needed for a study of breeding landbirds on a collaborative ranching conservation program with the World Wildlife Fund’s Northern Great Plains Sustainable Ranching Initiative

Tuesday November 1, 2022

Inspired by Ranchers in the Northern Great Plains

I dial the number I’m given. After a couple rings a soft-spoken, kind voice answers, “This is Russ.” “Hi Russ, I’m with the Intermountain Bird Observatory. We’ve been contracted by the World Wildlife Fund to conduct the bird surveys on your ranch for the RSVP–Ranching Systems and Viability Planning program.”

Tuesday November 1, 2022

A Day to Remember on the Wolakota Buffalo Range

I take a few more scoops of sand from beneath the engine block of my beat-up Toyota and skeptically eye the bundles of dry yucca stems and twigs beneath the front tires before climbing into the cab and trying one more time. No luck.

Tuesday November 1, 2022

Motus Network Tracks Birds Over Thousands of Miles

In 2022, IBO continued its partnership with MPG Ranch to maintain the Idaho Motus network. Motus stations can shut down at any moment from a variety of issues, so keeping the network up and running can be difficult and time consuming. The hard work is nonetheless fulfilling, especially when we discover more and more tag detections at our stations every year!

Tuesday November 1, 2022

Northern Idaho: A Three-Year Retrospective

Lesley and I have worked with the Intermountain Bird Observatory as the northern Idaho field crew for three seasons now. We are enamored by the beauty of that country, by its rewarding but challenging terrain and surprises – including crossing rushing creeks, climbing mountain ridges, and the occasional run-in with wolf packs, mountain lions, and bears.

Tuesday November 1, 2022

Surveying Idaho’s Only Endemic Bird: The Cassia Crossbill

The day starts early when conducting surveys for the Cassia Crossbill, with a beautiful fall sunrise and a quick morning cup of coffee to get warm.

Tuesday May 31, 2022

Spring 2022 Update from the Field

Our breeding season projects are in full swing here at IBO! Here are some updates…

Thursday January 13, 2022

Job Posting: Avian Point Count Technicians Utah and Idaho 2022

Avian Field Technicians needed for a large-scale study of breeding birds across Idaho and Utah…

Tuesday November 16, 2021

A New Cassia Crossbill Project

By Jay Carlisle, IBO Research Director The Cassia Crossbill (Loxia sinesciuris), restricted to the Albion…

Tuesday November 16, 2021

A Morning on the IMBCR project

By Jeremy Halka, IBO Research Biologist Every summer we send roughly 20 technicians out into…

Tuesday November 16, 2021

Farewell Christian!

Since 2015, Christian has overseen our Montana efforts by supervising facets of a number of…

Job Posting: Montana, Utah, and Idaho Avian Point Count Technician 2021

Description Salary: $17.10 – $19.44/hour, depending on experience. Location: Montana, Idaho and Utah, statewide FLSA…

Wednesday November 25, 2020

Cuckoos Fly the Coop?

By: Stephanie Coates Watching from the willows, gleaning caterpillars from cottonwood leaves, and sometimes seemingly…

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