Welcome aboard! Your job sounds very interesting. As someone who is currently searching for potential opportunities to continue my conservation career, I'd be interested in talking with you more about what your job with ANOMINDIAL entails. I haven't heard of many travel agencies with that focus in mind. You also may have my dream job as I would love to get into project management on international conservation projects. :)

Thanks for sharing this. I am an experienced Conservationist and job seeker and am having a hard time finding an organization to work for. I highly appreciate something that will help connect people.

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This type of message really speaks to me. I've had many people in my career tell me I can't do things. And part of that is because I was in competitive positions that others were jealous of. I experienced the "tear this person down to get ahead" approach. Not everyone has experienced hardships like this. So to hear that others also faced resistance makes me feel better about myself and my career journey.

I would say that birds being most accessible for viewing is what did it. I wish there was more reason than that. :) But honestly, I have a passion for general wildlife conservation and wouldn't mind working as an assistant for a mammal or amphibian project. At this point, I have so much experience in birds that it would be too hard for me to switch. That's why I think going in a direction of general biodiversity conservation and looking at the ecosystem as a whole is the closest thing I can get, as opposed to specializing in another taxa.

But fun fact: I LOVE amphibians, especially salamanders and frogs. I did not have a herp course in undergrad. I think if I was given the opportunity, I would be a huge amphibian person now. But the opportunities are also limited in the states for working with them. It's one of my many dreams to look at how healthy vernal pool habitat changes bird composition. But one thing at a time...

There's many reasons. If you visit Ohio, you see many fragmented woodlots and I've always been curious how they are in providing resources for migrants. In this case, there's fragmentation differences in suburban vs rural. But still, you can get serious fragmentation in rural areas with an agricultural landscape. But there's very little expansive habitat. Also, migration arrival and timing is different throughout the state. So having a banding station in central Ohio would be interesting to see how the timing differs from other locations. 

A hypothesis of the research is also that invasives cannot provide the same habitat as native species. Looking at the difference btw areas with invasives (tends to be urban or suburban) vs rural.