Course Content

Our tracking workshop combined evaluation covers general track and sign and trailing principles in a 3 day workshop prior to a CyberTracker evaluation and are delivered as separate disciplines.

Track and sign

These workshops cover the recognition of the track and sign left behind by the passing of mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians and even on occasion insects, The course will include foot morphology and identification of tracks, feeding signs, droppings, beds and resting areas, skulls bones and feathers, we mix theory and practical and visit several venues to cover as many of species as possible.

The evaluations are a stand alone assessment of the trackers ability and are held in a different location to the training keep in mind there is no guarantee that you will be evaluated on exactly the same items covered during the workshop. A track and sign evaluation is a great learning experience in its own right and as such can be treated as a continuation of the workshop.

Details of the evaluation process can be found here.

Trailing

The workshop covers the techniques needed to trail or follow an animal in the wild. The learning outcomes therefore follow the assessment criteria of the evaluation covering in detail the elements of spoor recognition, spoor anticipation, anticipation of dangerous situations, alertness and stealth with each of these main headings further broken down into sub categories leading too what we we believe is a most in-depth and thorough trailing criteria.

We prefer to teach trailing in a realistic scenario and so after a fairly brief introduction the course will take place entirely on the trail. We tend to focus on ungulates usually fallow deer, to maximise our chances of trailing to a satisfactory conclusion.

Details of the evaluation process can be found here

If this course is full please contact us to be placed on a waiting list for cancellations.

Should enough people express an interest we may run extra dates.

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