ESRM 351- Wildlife Research Techniques
Without a doubt, this is the best class I have ever taken at UW. Not only did this class have four fun overnight field trips, but I made many new friends in this course and our instructors, Jack DeLap and Laurel Peele, were simply amazing. I loved the amount of hands-on work we did in this class and that the majority of the research techniques we discussed in lecture we were later able to apply and practice for ourselves either in lab or on field trips. A major part of this class also focused on bird and plant identification, which I greatly enjoyed. We would practice identification on each field trip and my instructors and classmates were very supportive with helping me learn my plants and birdcalls, which I was pretty terrible at. After taking this class, birdwatching has become a new hobby of mine (as well as incessantly annoying my friends by telling them the name of every bird and plant I see). My favorite part of this class, though, was just being constantly surrounded by a bunch of other outdoorsy nerds who found things like mosses and insects to be infinitely interesting, and to whom seeing a California quail or red-tailed hawk was the highlight of the day. I look forward to taking more classes with the friends I've made in this class and to continuing to hone my birdwatching skills!
Below is a slideshow of pictures I took during our field trips:
Without a doubt, this is the best class I have ever taken at UW. Not only did this class have four fun overnight field trips, but I made many new friends in this course and our instructors, Jack DeLap and Laurel Peele, were simply amazing. I loved the amount of hands-on work we did in this class and that the majority of the research techniques we discussed in lecture we were later able to apply and practice for ourselves either in lab or on field trips. A major part of this class also focused on bird and plant identification, which I greatly enjoyed. We would practice identification on each field trip and my instructors and classmates were very supportive with helping me learn my plants and birdcalls, which I was pretty terrible at. After taking this class, birdwatching has become a new hobby of mine (as well as incessantly annoying my friends by telling them the name of every bird and plant I see). My favorite part of this class, though, was just being constantly surrounded by a bunch of other outdoorsy nerds who found things like mosses and insects to be infinitely interesting, and to whom seeing a California quail or red-tailed hawk was the highlight of the day. I look forward to taking more classes with the friends I've made in this class and to continuing to hone my birdwatching skills!
Below is a slideshow of pictures I took during our field trips:
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