Behavioural
Ecology Group


Internship and Research practice opportunities



Are you currently finishing your MSc and looking for internship opportunities within Behavioural Ecology group?


You can find here a list of previous and current internships at BHE divided by research domains.

At the end of this page, you can also find a contacts list for possible new internship / research practice opportunities.


If you have any questions about your MSc internship or MSc research practice, you can find all the relevant information here.


If you have any questions about internship opportunities or about your internship, please contact Bonne Beerda (bonne.beerda@wur.nl).



Behavioural ecology



Analysis of footage of breeding Eurasion Hobby’s (Falco Subbuteo)

Location: Regelink Ecologie & Landschap (Ecological Consultancy)

Supervisor: Sjouke Kingma

Contact of host institution: Marlien de Voogd (marlien.devoogd@regelink.nl)


Internship on winter field research techniques in black wheatears

Location: Guadix, Spain

Supervisors: Gretchen Wagner


Acoustic responses of Eurasian magpie toward different threatening context

Location: Wageningen University

Supervisors: Sjouke Kingma, Miriam Kuspiel


Migration route and resting sites of White Storks

Location: Nature Conservation Egypt (BirdLife International Partner)

Supervisors: Marc Naguib, Khaled Noby

Contact of host institution: Khaled Noby (khaled.elnoby@natureegypt.org)


Previous student projects:

NIOO-KNAW

  • Differences in executive functions in great tits, blue tits and marsh tits (Supervisor: Kees van Oers)

ARK Natuurontwikkeling

  • Carcass use and the role of social recruitment in juvenile ravens on the Veluwe (Supervisor: Lysanne Snijders)
  • Ravens (Corvus corax) on the Veluwe: How food affects social behaviour (Supervisor: Lysanne Snijders)

Copenhagen University (Denmark)

  • The biological underpinnings of pied babbler combinatorial communication (Supervisor: Marc Naguib)

University of the West Indies, St. Augustine (Trinidad)

  • Social cognitive testing of high-predation schools of Poecilia reticulata (Supervisor: Alexander Kotrschal)


Companion animals



Training military working dogs

Location:

Supervisors: Bonne Beerda


Previous student projects:

Wolf Science Center (Austria)

  • Cooperation between humans and canines (Supervisor: Bonne Beerda)


Conservation biology



Analysis of the spatiotemporal behaviours of mammals in a nature reserve

Location: Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, Leiden

Supervisors: Lysanne Snijders, Darcy Visscher


Wat zijn de effecten en risico’s van neonicotinïden voor de Nederlandse natuur en specifiek voor vleermuizen? (Dutch only)

Location: Vogelbescherming Nederland

Supervisors: Lysanne Snijders, Sjouke Kingma


Nature conservation and education internship

Location: Blijdorp Zoo, Rotterdam

Supervisor: Filipe Cunha


Social networks

Location, GAIA Zoo, Kerkrade

Supervisor: Bonne Beerda


Previous student projects:

Blijdorp Zoo

  • Project design for a study on the effectiveness of nature conservation education in Blijdorp Royal Rotterdam Zoo


Applied animal behaviour



The behavioural impact of carcass feeding on captive Asiatic lions.

Location: Blijdorp Zoo, Rotterdam

Supervisor: Filipe Cunha


Social aversion and welfare in polar bears

Location: Ouwehands Dierenpark

Supervisor: Bonne Beerda, Kiki Spoelstra

Contact: kiki@ouwehand.nl



Contacts list of host intistitutions



You can find here a contact list of all our host institutions that we are currently collaborating with to do your internship / research practice.


Blijdorp Zoo, Rotterdam

Contact: Filipe Cunha


GAIA Zoo, Kerkrade

Contact:


Regelink Ecologie & Landschap (Ecological Consultancy)

Contact: Marlien de Voogd (marlien.devoogd@regelink.nl)


Ouwehands Dierenpark, Rhenen

Contact: Kiki Spoelstra (kiki@ouwehand.nl)


Vogelbescherming Nederland

Contact: Lysanne Snijders, Sjouke Kingma



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