This internship provides animal husbandry knowledge, safe handling and medication practices, and experience managing the people, and physical spaces, and administrative tasks involved with wildlife care. Overall, this internship provides unparalleled wildlife experience!
What I wish was different
If I could change something about this internship, I would have had more formal training before officially starting, as all of the training was on-the-job, on-the-spot.
Advice
I would advise applicants to make sure that they are ready to do some really challenging work, both physically, and mentally, due to the emotional impact of caring for ill and injured wild patients.
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Avian nurseries intern
May - August 2018 • Roseville, MN
What I liked
I loved being able to do hands on work with all of our birds.
What I wish was different
Nothing
Advice
Very time consuming
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Avian Nursery Intern
May - August 2018 • Roseville, MN
What I liked
I enjoyed working with hands-on with wildlife and gaining valuable real-world experience in my field.
What I wish was different
I wish the management had been better organized and volunteers had been more consistent.
Advice
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Mammal Nursery Intern
June 2018 • Roseville, MN
What I liked
I really liked how hands on this internship was. It gave me a lot of responsibility and I was able to rise to the challenge and I feel that I grew from it and I have taken many valuable lessons away from it.
What I wish was different
I wish there had been more interns to give a bit more flexibility with the scheduling because it was very hard to ever get a shift covered if we needed it.
Advice
Go into this knowing that it will be a lot of hard work but that you will get out of it as much as you put into it.
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Mammal Nursery Intern
June - October 2018 • Roseville, MN
What I liked
I loved the hands on environment and skills I learned to pursue a career in wildlife conservation.
What I wish was different
I wish the start and end dates had been more flexible.
Advice
Schedule yourself for start and end dates that work best for you!
