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Objective: To lay a foundation for an amateur career in studying raptors and owls, and to a lesser
degree True Shrikes, and various aspects of their biology, behavior, and ecology. Out of extreme enthusiasm for
science and passionate love of birds, especially raptorial ones.
To find a fulfilling avocation and/or field assistant position that makes the best use of my skills.
Experience
Present activities- I am responsible for devising a resolution for the Wilson Ornithological Society's next leadership
meeting to congratulate CITES on 30 years of accomplishments, my own idea. I am also devising a long-term bird summer and
winter monitoring project for the Lehigh Gap Wildlife Refuge patterned after the Breeding Bird Census and Winter Bird
Population Study programs. I am in the process of creating a raptor field project to satisfy an Independent Study project in
biology at college, most likely either a roadkill study with kestrels as the target species or a study of some aspects
of summer breeding biology and diet of suburban Cooper's Hawks.
2 years of college...A+1 in "Biology of Birds" at Muhlenberg College, 1991
PA Society for Ornithology Special Areas Project
Cornell Lab programs + regular Christmas Count participation
PA Breeding BIrd Atlas 2005; numerous memberships of professional societies, incl. participation in the WOS Conservation
Committee 1994
Active member, local bird groups; volunteer.
Advisor on the construction of a local park, Urban Res. Dev. Corp.
2 years MAPS mistnetting; 1 day raptor road banding
Organized an Osprey platform placement and monitoring
Most importantly, 14 years amateur ornithologist and raptor biologist:
intensively self-taught on a professional level with professional
guidance-
one paper accepted
Interest in nature since a child- 4 years Youth Conservation Corps; nature classes, Shaker Lakes Regional Nature Center;
Cleveland Museum of Natural History- "Experimental Biology" and "Human Anthropology"; 1976-1979: Advocated politically for
Mt. McKindley (Denali) National Park, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and the Cuyahoga Valley National Wildlife Refuge
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