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The Ornithological Life
dancing to bird songs
Created on 2003-04-25 14:52:51 (#1025352), last updated 2009-12-10
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Basic Info| Name: | Natalie |
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| Birthdate: | 1983-12-28 |
| Location: | Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States |
BioThings 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: 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,Trinidad, Ecuador, Antarctica, Madagascar, Kenya, Australia, SE Asia, Veracruz in October, the American West & Pacific Northwest, Maine, just about all of Europe...
~peace
~love
~to see a Whooping Crane courtship dance (in person, in the wild)
~a second UF football national championship a third a fourth UF football national championship
~a second UF basketball national championship a third UF basketball national championship
~a PhD
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.
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: 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
~love
~to see a Whooping Crane courtship dance (in person, in the wild)
~
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~a PhD
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.
ConnectInterests (103):
alfred russell wallace, anatomy, antshrikes, avian biology, baking, bananaquits, ben and jerrys, bicycles, bird watching, birding, birds, books, brown-headed nuthatches, buffy the vampire slayer, camping, canoeing, caribbean, caribbean islands, chick flicks, chickadees, conservation, conservation biology, cooking, coraciiformes, coral reefs, cycling, darwin, e e cummings, ecology, ecology and evolutionary biology, education, environmentalism, equality, evolution, evolutionary biology, field guides, finding nemo, firefly, football, fossils, 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, molecular evolution, morphology, motmots, museums, natural history, natural history museums, natural selection, neotropics, ornithology, paleontology, photography, phylogenetics, phylogeography, 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, teaching, the princess bride, tobago, tour de france, traveling, trinidad, trogons, tropics, tufted titmice, university of florida, vegetarianism, vertebrate zoology, vertebrates, warblers, wildlife, wildlife photography, zoology
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 - 2009)
University of New Mexico - Albuquerque, NM (2009 - present)
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