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| User: | ecologygirl (1025352)  The Ornithological Life
dancing to bird songs |
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| Name: | Natalie | |||||
| Location: | Gainesville, Florida, United States | |||||
| Birthdate: | 1983-12-28 | |||||
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| AOL IM: |  BirderNatalie (Add Buddy, Send Message) | |||||
| Bio: | Things I love: field work, birds, my friends, preparing bird specimens, books, dancing, hosting Risk games & dinner party nights, cooking, the beach, rainforests, coral reefs, taking photographs of wildlife, Ben and Jerry's ice cream, Gator football, tailgating, birding, taking photographs of friends, my parakeet Darwin, my cockatiel Hermione, running in the summer rain, flip-flops, North Florida in March, Gator basketball. Things I hate: narrow-mindedness, waste, driving in traffic, cockroaches in my kitchen, statistics programs that don't actually work, rap music, cigarette smoke, North Florida in July, prejudice. Things I feel ambivalent towards: washing fossils, pop music, tennis shoes, North Florida in January. Stuff that irritates me: people who are more concerned with the welfare of individual organisms than with the health of the entire population or the whole ecosystem the organisms are a part of (ie, bunnyhuggers) - especially in regard to introduced species; cell phones going off in class; self-inflicted ignorance; self-pity... I want: ~to spend my life studying birds ~gender, racial, religious, and ethnic equality worldwide ~extinction rates to slow down & rainforest destruction to stop ~to go to Alaska, Peru, Venezuela, ~peace ~to be good at birding by ear as well as by sight ~love ~to see a Whooping Crane courtship dance (in person, in the wild) ~ ~ ~a PhD I started working on a masters in zoology at the University of Florida in August 2006. My research is focused on insular adaptations and gene flow between populations of birds in Trinidad and Tobago. I'm also a TA for the zoology department, currently teaching vertebrate anatomy lab. My journal is partly public, and partly friends-only. It depends on the subject matter and my mood at the time. Generally, the more personal the subject, the more likely it is to be friends-locked. I talk about all kinds of things in my journal, including my personal life and my research, which involves the collection of bird specimens. I hate killing birds more than most people will ever understand, but I believe it's important and necessary for research, and, when done properly, it has no impact on the local bird populations. If you have a problem with this, don't read my journal and you won't have to hear about it. | |||||
| Pictures: | over 100 public | |||||
| Interests: | 82: alfred russell wallace, antshrikes, baking, bananaquits, ben and jerrys, bird watching, birding, birds, books, brown-headed nuthatches, buffy the vampire slayer, camping, canoeing, caribbean, chick flicks, chickadees, conservation, conservation biology, cooking, coraciiformes, coral reefs, cycling, darwin, e e cummings, ecology, environmentalism, equality, evolution, evolutionary biology, field guides, finding nemo, firefly, football, gator basketball, gator football, gator sports, guy gavriel kay, hummingbirds, island adaptations, island biogeography, islands, jane austen, john donne, kingfishers, knitting, life listing, literature, mockingbirds, motmots, museums, natural history, natural selection, neotropics, ornithology, photography, poetry, population genetics, rainforests, reading, research collections, robin hobb, ruby-crowned kinglets, running, salsa dancing, scuba diving, sex and the city, sexual selection, skiing, skinning birds, snorkeling, south america, specimen preparation, taxonomy, the princess bride, tobago, tour de france, traveling, trogons, tropics, tufted titmice, vegetarianism, warblers | |||||
| Schools: | Ridgeview Elementary School - Orange Park, FL (1991 - 1995) Ridgeview Junior High School - Orange Park, FL (1995 - 1998) Ridgeview High School - Orange Park, FL (1998 - 2001) University of Florida - Gainesville, FL (2001 - present) | |||||
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| Mutual Friends: | 25: _amre, adarraliselle, azraelsbane, cirelo, drkflame, ebonyraven, fireonthewater, gapeezer, goodalls_clone, junebug13, justforgotten_, meanbot, mindquakes, msschein, pearlescentgeek, pixiesandswords, ploverchaser, rincewindmalfoy, roothekittykat, sammianthia, sanderling, telumendil, thatautguy, vividlilac, wwwolfww | |||||
| Also Friend of: | 9: finchwench, glassgasm, glassinside, kygeographer, nebhead, ohiobirdman, ravenfrank, underthe_scope, yobubba | |||||
| Member of: | 4: bird_watching, birdlovers, ornithology, paidmembers | |||||
| Account type: | Paid Account | |||||
