Category Notes from the Field

My pet botfly

Most people who know me are aware of my fascination with parasites, and I know I’m not the only one. When I worked as an interpreter at the Bell Museum of Natural History in Minnesota, I found the best way to win the attention of a group of unruly kids was to show them something [...]

Institute for Bird Populations

I wrote a short personal piece about my experiences as an intern for IBP working with Great Gray Owls back in 2006 for their 2012 annual report. It’s located here: http://www.birdpop.org/DownloadDocuments/2012_IBP_Annual_Report.pdf.

Honduras Field Report

Notes from the Field   This is a piece I wrote for Daily Kos near the end of a two month stay spent working in Honduras   Since the last time I wrote, I’ve left the fires of California for far greener pastures to the south. Once again, my mission was ornithological, although I wasn’t [...]