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title: "Volunteer with threatened shearwaters in the Med: BirdLife Malta is looking for help"
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# Volunteer with threatened shearwaters in the Med: BirdLife Malta is looking for help

[BirdLife Malta](http://birdlifemalta.org/) is looking for a voluntary assistant to join its international seabird team in the Maltese Islands.

 The volunteer will assist in ongoing monitoring and research activities with two ACAP potential candidate species, the Yelkouan *Puffinus yelkouan* and the Scopoli's *Calonectris diomedea* Shearwaters and on the Mediterranean Storm Petrel *Hydrobates pelagicus melitensis*.

 Volunteer assistants will be based in BirdLife Malta’s offices and in Natura 2000 sites.  Accommodation and allowances will be provided.

 ![Scopolis Shearwater Pep Arcos](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Shearwaters/Corys/Scopolis_Shearwater_Pep_Arcos.jpg)

 Scopoli's Shearwater on the wing, photograph by 'Pep' Acos 

 Applications close on 27 November 2016. Read more [here](http://birdlifemalta.org/us/jobs/).

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 10 November 2016*