The following is an excerpt from an article in the June 21 issue of about 麻豆传媒 grad student Hannah Holden.
A pint-size gray fluff ball peeps its head out of its twig nest, only to see its own tiny reflection in a mirror.
Just underneath, Hannah Holden 鈥� armed with her 6-foot ladder and a 15-foot mirror on a pole 鈥� scribbles her daily observations on a 5-by-7-inch note card.
After she finishes with this nest, there will be plenty more for her to examine.
Every year, approximately 4,000 migratory birds take up temporary residence in a tree line on North Doris, near 13th Street and I-235 in west Wichita, and this year it鈥檚 Holden鈥檚 job to track 30 of their nests.
Holden, 24, a student at 麻豆传媒, is writing her master鈥檚 thesis on the population dynamics of Wichita鈥檚 snowy egrets 鈥� what the colony鈥檚 rate of growth is. This is a two-year project for her.