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Berkshire Bird Observatory

Promoting bird conservation through science, partnerships, and education.
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08/22/2026

Meet Leora Ferrari Leora one of our fall banding interns for fall 2026!

Leora joins us from Queens College CUNY, where she’s researching cultural evolution of House Finch song.

Hometown: Medford
College: Mt. Holyoke, CUNY (grad school)
Most wanted bird: Saw-whet Owl
Favorite band: Thievery Corporation

08/21/2026

Meet Zeke Cordeiro Zeke Cordeiro one of our banding interns for fall 2026!

Zeke also joins us from the Sierra Nevada of California, where he was doing Spotted Owl work for Institute for Bird Populations

Hometown: Chicago
College: Eckerd College
Most wanted bird: Black-throated Blue Warbler
Football Club: Liverpool

08/20/2026

Meet Zoe Dibble—BBO’s assistant ba**er for fall 2026!

Zoe comes to us from California where she helped run MAPS banding stations for Institute for Bird Populations

Hometown: Cape Cod, MA
College: CCCC, UMass
Most wanted bird: Yellow-shafted Flicker

08/19/2026

*Station first* Hooded Warbler!!!

This is a rare bird for us in Massachusetts—Hooded Warblers typically occur further south.

This one was a young male—very exciting. That means he likely grew up nearby.

Many species are shifting their ranges further north due to climate change. Perhaps Hooded Warblers will become increasingly common in our region in the future.

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08/02/2026

Join us for a screening of Wild Inside this Tuesday at 7 PM at Images Cinema in Williamstown!

This award-winning documentary tells the story of NYC’s beloved owl, Flaco.

Flaco quickly built a huge fan base after a clandestine intruder helped him escape his Manhattan Zoo enclosure.

Join us to learn how this extraordinary bird learned how to live wild and free in the big city—after a life of captivity.

Images Cinema 🦉

07/22/2026

Another hummer! We’re seeing lots of these at our summer site—always miraculous 💯

Too tinsy for our bands, so it’s a quick catch, record, and release.

All birds captured and safely released for conservation research with required permits.

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07/02/2026

Berkshire Bird Observatory is hiring a songbird ba**er AND two banding interns for this fall season. There are also opportunities to help band Saw-whet Owls! We are looking for people who *love* birds and are eager to improve their banding skills.

Our spring season runs from August 14th through early November.

We will provide great housing in the beautiful Berkshires of western Massachusetts.

We can also provide a modest stipend of $2500 for the Banding Assistant and $1500 for the Banding Interns.

Qualifications:

Assistant Ba**er:

Extracted at least 200 birds (500+ preferred). Passion for birds and bird banding. Great attitude and ability to work 7 days/week in field conditions and hike quickly over terrain and through mud.

Banding Intern:

A love of birds and banding. Ability to work early mornings, potentially 7 day/week. Good ID skills of eastern birds and a desire to learn more about ID and ageing and sexing birds in the hand. Some field experience and love the outdoors. Banding experience is great but not required.

Let us know if you have a car—we need to hire at least one person with reliable transportation.

Applications reviewed upon submission—apply soon!

Please email a concise cover letter and CV with 3 references as a combined PDF with “BBO fall26 intern (your name)” in the subject line to Ben: [email protected].

06/28/2026

It’s baby bird season! We caught this papa and baby together while MAPS banding. So cute!

The ratio of young vs adults is useful in determining how our songbirds are doing during the breeding season.

All birds captured, banded, and safely released for conservation research with required permits.

05/13/2026

One minute compilation of a spring seep.

05/12/2026

Station first Red Crossbill today!

We were thrilled to get this rare occasional breeder—the first for any of us in-the-hand.

And she was a female with a brood patch!

She is likely using the ridge line pitch pine up slope of us for breeding habitat.

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PO Box 145
Great Barrington, MA
01230

Website

https://www.berkshirebirds.org/

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