If you’re not from Maine, you assume that April means spring. Flowers, green leaf buds, birds singing, the works, right? HAH. Some years, yes, a thaw will begin early and April will be lovely, but most of the time the ground is still frozen and the temperature hovers somewhere in the forties. That was the…
Author: Erika Zambello
Erika Zambello is a writer, birder, and photographer living and working along the Emerald Coast of Florida. She has a master’s degree in environmental management, where she specialized in ecosystem science and conservation. Her love of the outdoors was inspired by a childhood in Maine, where she returned for her National Geographic Young Explorer grant. In addition to Maine, she has lived in New York, France, Washington, DC, and North Carolina. Erika believes in the power of communicating conservation and exploration, which was the inspiration for One World, Two Feet.
Duke Nicholas School – Meeting Inspirational New Colleagues at NRLI
The best part of my time at the Nicholas School of the Environment was meeting fellow students. Everyone was passionate about their study areas, plus hiking, birding, herping, and improving the environment. We commiserated over difficulties in field work and statistical analyses, and celebrated awesome results or pioneering research. Since graduating over a year ago,…
10000 Birds – Bay Bluff Park is for the Birds
With all my recent traveling up and down the eastern United States, I have had almost zero time to bird in my “home territory.” During my first full week at home in months, I vowed to change that with a visit to a new (to me) park. Bay Bluffs Park in Pensacola, FL looks out…
E. Zambello Writing and Art 