{"id":709,"date":"2019-09-27T16:27:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T16:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/?p=709"},"modified":"2019-10-03T18:45:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T18:45:12","slug":"erik-johansson-fall-2019-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/uncategorized\/erik-johansson-fall-2019-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Erik Johansson &#8211; Fall 2019 in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Since leaving Utah in August, I\u2019ve been working as a field assistant for graduate and post-doc researchers at Brookfield Conservation Park in South Australia. The research here is investigating cooperative breeding, mixed-species foraging flocks, and disease ecology in fairywrens, thronbills, honeyeaters, robins, babblers, and a variety of other local bird species- all under the watchful eyes of curious kangaroos and hairy-nosed wombats. I\u2019m enjoying exploring a place so ecologically unfamiliar, as well as the interactions we\u2019ve had with the local conservation and research groups that do work in the park. My daily schedule usually includes a mix of mist-netting and banding, resighting color-banded birds, and recording behavioral observations, followed by a run or bike ride through the mallee and bluebush and maybe some wombat spotting by moonlight. I\u2019ll be here for another three months, wrapping up just in time to return to the US for the holidays.<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_2961.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"713\" data-link=\"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/uncategorized\/erik-johansson-fall-2019-in-australia\/attachment\/img_2961\/\" class=\"wp-image-713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_2961.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_2961-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_2961-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_2951-e1570128010830.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"712\" data-link=\"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/uncategorized\/erik-johansson-fall-2019-in-australia\/attachment\/img_2951\/\" class=\"wp-image-712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_2951-e1570128010830.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_2951-e1570128010830-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since leaving Utah in August, I\u2019ve been working as a field assistant for graduate and post-doc researchers at Brookfield Conservation Park in South Australia. The research here is investigating cooperative breeding, mixed-species foraging flocks, and disease ecology in fairywrens, thronbills, honeyeaters, robins, babblers, and a variety of other local bird&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}