The Itasca Experience (Minnesota)

Click below if you want to learn more about my research with purple finches at Itasca Biological Station through the University of Minnesota...

Explaining my experience at Itasca Bio Station

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Mist-netting at the campground. (Photo by Chris)

Collecting swallow bugs (Oeciacus vicarius) near Grand Rapids

Pine siskin (Carduelis pinus) caught at Itasca Biological Station

Below are my two field assistants, Tatiana and Jesse, from the Smrekars Acres Tree Farm in Guthrie, MN. Picture from 2008 but they have hosted my field work for 2 years thus far. Great choose and cut farm with loads of wildlife!!

Tatiana holding an American goldfinch (Carduelis tristis)

Jesse holding a Harris' sparrow (Zonotrichia querula)