What does A Wildlife Biologist do on an average day?

Depends on the biologist's job! Here are some examples from my friends' lives:





One is currently going from site to site in Australia doing surveys for invasive electric ants. This entails driving to a designated place on a map (or knocking on people's doors) and placing transect lines and quadrats, where they look for the presence of electric ants to estimate population numbers and try to figure out where they came from.





One is doing birdwatching on some days, and then coming back to her office to crunch the numbers of the birds she saw on other days, in order to gauge different species and habits at different sites so that she can find out whether human disturbance has affected the populations.





One is either fishing with a gill net to tag sharks, back at a lab entering numbers into a computer, or swimming in estuaries to place tracking equipment.





I know others who work with captive animals to try and breed rare species too, and then train them behaviourally to survive in the wild... they might do it with just about any taxon, in any environment.





It's a diverse kind of job!What does A Wildlife Biologist do on an average day?
I have a friend who was a researcher in Wildlife biology. She spent her days counting all the plants that were in random squares of a grid she plotted out in a woodland north of where I live. It had to do with governmental funding for making the area a preserve for wildlife. Only got about 8 or 9 dollars an hour for this job and it lasted about a month.What does A Wildlife Biologist do on an average day?
The USFWS is charged primarily with enforcing the Endangered Species Act and with managing their preserves. So depending on which aspect the biologist is in, it may be monitoring endangered species, writing biological opinions or species restoration plans, or working with landowners on consultations or conservation agreements, or dealing with invasive species.


This time of year, there are a lot of rare bird surveys; earlier, there were pinniped surveys; later, there will be end-of-year reports.
My ex- husband was one. He would analyze grass samples, classify, and label them. All day long. Ideally, a wildlife biologist analyze the land to help control wildlife numbers, diseases, data on dropping and such. With a BS degree, he made minimum wage. What a shame. Good luck. I don't think they are utilized as they should be.