James embarked on a whirlwind camping tour of the Sierras and central coast, with his sister in tow, before returning to Virginia for his senior year. After graduation, James will have a field internship with Virginia Working Landscapes, a program under the Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute. He will focus his studies on eastern bluebirds, tree swallows, and barn owls, but will also conduct counts of all bird species within the study sites and assessing how avian community composition relates to the abundance and composition of arthropod communities.
