I took my first Wildlife Biodiversity and Ecology class last night and it was fascinating. It was a three hour class on Ornithology (birds) and it seemed way too short. It’s always awesome to see a whole new world open up before you, that you vaguely knew was there, but had no idea what it involved. I hope I have the time and motivation to follow up on this brief introduction (although I suspect I’m going to hope the same thing for every other class). John Acorn is a very interesting prof, and I’m really looking forward to the rest of this class.<\/p>\n
I thought I’d post a bird photo in honor of the class, but ironically I wasn’t able to identify it. I obviously need more classes and\/or experience. So I suspect this is some sort of warbler (maybe a Palm Warbler? edit – yup, it’s a Palm Warbler — Dendroica palmarum<\/em>). I found it in a poplar forest in northern Saskatchewan. I took my first Wildlife Biodiversity and Ecology class last night and it was fascinating. It was a three hour class on Ornithology (birds) and it seemed way too short. It’s always awesome to see a whole new world open up before you, that you vaguely knew was there, but had no idea what it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,87,736],"tags":[835,800,143,831,838,832,569,839,828,827,106,225,833,232,830,829,836,834,826,837,178,575],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forest-2","category-photo-of-the-day","category-wildlife-2","tag-animalia","tag-aves","tag-biology","tag-bird-photo","tag-birds","tag-brief-introduction","tag-class","tag-conservation-biology","tag-dendroica-palmarum","tag-ecology-class","tag-flora-and-fauna","tag-forest","tag-john-acorn","tag-motivation","tag-northern-saskatchewan","tag-palm-warbler","tag-parulidae","tag-passeriformes","tag-poplar-forest","tag-warbler","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-biodiversity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1451,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions\/1451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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