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River View A Barn Swallow perched over the Sacramento River in Isleton, Sacramento County, California. Early 2023.	Roadside Sentry A Black-tailed Jackrabbit encountered on the way out of Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge, Nevada en route to the 2023 Western Field Ornithologists conference. They were very cooperative; they paused on the road for over two minutes as we checked a leak under the car.	Dispersion A group of Marbled Godwits take flight at Elkhorn Slough, California.	Pelican Bomb Brown Pelicans and Caspian Terns take off at the Pajaro River estuary in California.
Goldfinch in the Mist A Lesser Goldfinch feasts on seeds in the early morning. Photographed at Drew Lake, California in 2023.

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I am a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and an incoming MS student in the UCLA Ecology & Evolutionary Biology program, where I will research urban bird behavior in Dr. Pamela Yeh's Lab. I graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in Integrative Biology in 2024.

Besides research, I watch too many TV shows, listen to pop punk, write, read, and bird. Feel free to contact me at sierraru (at) g (dot) ucla (dot) edu!

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River View

A Barn Swallow perched over the Sacramento River in Isleton, Sacramento County, California. Early 2023.

Roadside Sentry

A Black-tailed Jackrabbit encountered on the way out of Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge, Nevada en route to the 2023 Western Field Ornithologists conference. They were very cooperative; they paused on the road for over two minutes as we checked a leak under the car.

Dispersion

A group of Marbled Godwits take flight at Elkhorn Slough, California.

Pelican Bomb

Brown Pelicans and Caspian Terns take off at the Pajaro River estuary in California.

Goldfinch in the Mist

A Lesser Goldfinch feasts on seeds in the early morning. Photographed at Drew Lake, California in 2023.

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