Masterstudent Animal Sciences
Because of my interest in both flora and fauna I switched, after graduation, from the bachelor Plant Sciences to the master Animal Science; both are studies from the Wageningen University & Research. Together with three other students I am asked to do research on a bird called 'Sporophila lineola' in Brazil. An opportunity that I seized with both hands! The four of us have our own project concerning the bird and my project will focus on the song of both father- and motherbird during the nesting season and the meaning that is hidden behind this song. With my blog I will try to take the reader with me in my adventure in the beautiful Brazil.
I must stop promising you things. I promised you to write the next blog before Tessa and Robert were leaving and here I am… Yvonne just left the house to go back to the Netherlands and Dalila and I are the only ones left in a house that a week…
Excuse me for the delay of this blog (again), but I have a good reason for that: Belo Horizonte. Remember my global summary of the last blog about what we were going to do in the coming week? Well, the expectations I had at that time were only a glimpse…
As you probably noticed, there was no blog last week. To be short, the weather was horrible, the birds would not sing and there were still no nests to be found. In order to complete our inability to do our research, a truck drove into the power lines and we…
Chaotic arrival of Robert This week, the last member of the Lined Seedeater team 2019 joined us: Robert! Together with Alexia, a Brazilian team member, and a personal driver from the university I was ‘escorted’ to the airport just in case something went wrong again with luggage and I had…
This fourth blog is written during the darkest day since my arrival. Since the start of last night until now it is raining and there are thunderstorms with some short intervals. In comparison with yesterday, the warmest and most humid day since January, today can be entitled as ‘coolest’ day….
Blog #3 already; I cannot believe that two weeks have already passed by! Something is telling me that these three months will not last long. To be correct: two and a half months from now on. However, time is just an illusion and when I think of all the things…
No luggage The first day in Brazil could have started better. Due to the fact that KLM told me only to pick up my luggage in Belo Horizonte, I apparently passed the mandatory customs in São Paulo and my luggage was not permitted to enter Brazil. Here I stood in…
After months of preparation, the adventure will finally start today! I am on my way to Brazil for my master thesis! At the moment I am in the plane to São Paulo, Brazil, where I will take another plane to Belo Horizonte. In Belo Horizonte, the 6th biggest city in…