Bird Studies Course
Boost your bird study skills with solid field methods, sharp research questions, and ethical practices suited to South African contexts. Master designing strong bird behaviour studies, handling data effectively, and transforming local sightings into valuable biological insights ready for sharing.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
certificate valid in your country
What will I learn?
This Bird Studies Course equips you with hands-on tools to plan and execute small, thorough bird projects from beginning to end. Gain skills in choosing and mapping nearby sites, crafting standard field protocols, posing precise behavioural questions, and developing ethograms. Handle data management and coding, produce straightforward visual overviews, interpret findings with care, and tackle ethics, logistics, and constraints in crisp, professional reports.
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Develop skills
- Design bird field protocols: build robust, bias-aware observation routines.
- Formulate bird behaviour questions: turn ideas into clear, testable hypotheses.
- Map and characterise sites: classify habitats and record key environmental data.
- Manage bird data: code field notes, summarise patterns, and create simple visuals.
- Apply bird study ethics: minimise disturbance and document limits in short projects.
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