Assistant ecologist teams
EchoSight integrates licenced supervision with competent assistant surveyors so your bottle trapping, torching, and monitoring programmes run safely within your RAMS and quality systems—authored and owned by you.
Compliance note: EchoSight is not a GCN licence holder. All licensable actions are delivered as subcontract ecology field support under your named licence holder.
From mobilisation to nightly handover, we support your licenced ecologist with structured, professional field teams.
We align with your RAMS (prepared by your team), licence conditions, and site protocols before the first bottle trap is set.
Qualified teams undertake bottle trapping, torching, and egg searching with licenced oversight.
Datasets and nightly notes are collated ready to drop into your reporting templates and licence returns.
Teams mobilise from Newbury with travel billed from base at £0.45 per mile plus £33 per hour for travel time. We routinely deliver programmes across Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Hampshire, and neighbouring counties with transparent allowances agreed in advance for longer journeys.
We regularly support multi-pond networks, DLL commitments, and mitigation monitoring—ask about staging survey nights to align with your licenced ecologist’s availability.
Flexible assistant teams that plug into presence/absence, population, and mitigation monitoring.
Six-visit schedules delivered alongside your licenced ecologist, with contingency built in for weather.
Extended coverage with structured effort recording to evidence relative populations and behaviours.
Assistants familiar with District Level Licensing and mitigation site commitments, including habitat checks.
Trap washing, kit prep, courier liaison, and digital data handling to keep your programme running smoothly.
Guide rates for typical deployments under your licence, aligned to the 2026 rate card (£33/hr core rate + travel billed from Newbury).
| Survey support package | What is included | Guide price (from) |
|---|---|---|
| Standard P/A survey night | 4–6 hour presence/absence survey support with bottle trapping, torching, and egg searching. | £130–£200 + Travel |
| Extended population survey night | 6–8 hour coverage or multi-pond programmes with staggered checks, additional mobilisation, and extended reporting. | £200–£260 + Travel |
| Daytime logistics & trap turnarounds | Trap washing, drying, redeployment prep, vehicle loading, and sample dispatch support (1–2 hrs typical). | £33–£66 + Travel |
| Programme travel & overnights | Travel is charged from Newbury at £0.45 per mile plus £33 per hour for travel time. Overnight stays are passed through at cost, and for sites more than 1.5 hours away we may request that clients organise accommodation. | £0.45/mi + £33/hr travel time; overnight stays at cost |
| Package | What’s Included | Key Deliverables | Price (no VAT to add) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard P/A survey night | 4–6 hour presence/absence survey support with bottle trapping, torching, and egg searches. |
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£130–£200 + Travel |
| Extended population survey night | 6–8 hour coverage or multi-pond programmes with staggered checks, additional mobilisation time, and extended handover briefing. |
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£200–£260 + Travel |
| Daytime logistics & trap turnarounds | Trap washing, drying, redeployment preparation, vehicle loading, consumable restock, and sample dispatch support (1–2 hrs typical). |
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£33–£66 + Travel |
| Programme travel & overnights | Travel billed from Newbury at £0.45 per mile plus £33 per hour for travel time, with overnight stays passed through at cost and client-organised accommodation for sites >1.5 hours away. |
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£0.45/mi + £33/hr travel time; overnight at cost with accommodation organised by client for sites >1.5 hours from Newbury |
Send us your pond list, licence holder details, and preferred survey nights. We will confirm staffing and provide a written quote within one working day.
