Jobs at Whatbird

Bird Identification Course Author Wanted

goofy166 — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:38:41 GMT

We have a course started in learning to identify birds and we need a writer to finish it. The pay is low but the fun is high. What makes this job easier is the outline is done and the first chapters are written. You can see it here

Bird Identification Course

The qualifications for this job are

You know how to write and have evidence of it
You love birds
You will work for a fixed fee
You can follow an outline and style that has already been set up

If interested please send email to us here.

Bird Song Organizer

Mitchell Waite — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:47:17 GMT

We need someone familiar enough with bird songs and calls to help organize a list or grouping of birds that have similar songs. If Interested please email us at http://www.whatbird.com/ContactUs/ContactUs.aspx

Bird Artists

Mitchell Waite — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:49:57 GMT

We are always looking for artists to draw new illustrations as well as work on existing drawings. We are particularly seeking an artist who can draw female and juvenile versions of some of our birds. If Interested please email us at http://www.whatbird.com/ContactUs/ContactUs.aspx

Interesting Facts About Birds Job

Mitchell Waite — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 16:36:07 GMT

Interesting Facts About Birds Specification

This job is to write up interesting, unusual and not so well known facts about birds of North America for our web site

http://www.whatbird.com.

These facts will go on our species page, for example

http://identify.whatbird.com/obj/117/_/Turkey_Vulture.aspx

You can see the heading on the left below Voice Text. Its now empty

I would like this facts to follow a format like found on the Cornell All About Birds web site:

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide

For example the Turkey Vulture

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Turkey_Vulture.html

The Turkey Vulture uses its sense of smell to locate carrion. The part of its brain responsible for processing smells is particularly large, compared to other birds. Its heightened ability to detect odors allows it to find dead animals below a forest canopy.
The Turkey Vulture maintains stability and lift at low altitudes by holding its wings up in a slight dihedral (V-shape) and teetering from side to side while flying. It flies low to the ground to pick up the scent of dead animals.
Like its stork relatives, the Turkey Vulture often defecates on its own legs, using the evaporation of the water in the feces to cool itself down.
The Turkey Vulture usually forages alone, unlike its smaller, more social relative, the Black Vulture. Although one Turkey Vulture can dominate a single Black Vulture at a carcass, usually such a large number of Black Vultures appear that they can overwhelm a solitary Turkey Vulture and take most of the food.

As you can see these are cool and interesting ideas that are not found in normal field guides.

Since not all birds have interesting or provocative things to discuss I would like you to simply choose birds to write that you know about. This would save you time doing research. Let me know if this is of any interest.

If it is I'd like you to submit a short sample so I know you understand what I am looking for.

You can email me directly here. Please select Department: Teachers.

Sincerely

Mitch

PS One very easy fact you can use on the birds in the United States is the State Bird.

Contracting Jobs at Whatbird

Mitchell Waite — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 18:40:53 GMT

Occasionally there are contracting jobs open at Whatbird in testing, writing, editing and web page building.

We generally start with volunteer positions that work into paid positions once a training period is complete.

If you are interested in working with us please submit a short email about yourself and what you would be interested in doing and we will contact you if a position becomes available.

We are looking for contractors and volunteers to help us with the following tasks and projects.

Bird Illustration Review
Review and critique sketches and color illustrations from our artists and make sure that they accurately represent the bird.

Typo Editing
We need an observant reviewer to check for typos on our species pages in the paragraphs that describe bird behaviors.

Interesting Facts
Our species pages have a section called Interesting Facts. We are always looking for people who love to research unusual bird behavior or ideas to adds to our database..

Articles
Find articles on birding and build links to them for the News section on the front page of our site..

Tutorials
We are building a series of tutorials on bird identification. We have the writing done but we need someone with web experience, preferably with FrontPage, to build and edit the web pages..

If you are interested in any of these jobs please Contact Us.