Ever wonder what it’s like to do bird research in the Amazon jungle?
This YouTube short series offers a glimpse into what it is like to be a biologist in the Amazonian jungles of Peru. Follow each team of biologists as they describe what their day-to-day work looks like in a remote jungle. Learn how to join the team yourself and how to get started.
Videographer Marc Ferrum spent two months in the jungle, where he documented the day-to-day lives of the teams and participated in research himself. He worked with Fauna Forever, a Peruvian-based nonprofit that focuses on long-term monitoring of terrestrial vertebrates.
In this video, the ornithology team is up before the sun as they set out to put up mist nets used to catch understory birds. They catch these birds to collect morphological and demographic data, such as species, sex, age class, weight, and other measurements. This is done to better understand the populations in the area and track changes that may be caused by human influence and climate change.
With about 400 species of birds documented in the area by the team, there is much to uncover in this diverse region.
