My Experience Making The Herbarium

Hello to my followers today I will tell you my experience making the herbarium.

The herbarium is an activity carried out by the first year student of Forestry Engineering of the University of Chile and consists of collecting vegetation samples (ideally 20 native and 10 exotic) and pressing them to make them into file, added to this must be added the coordinates of the place, the person who found and recognized the sample, the scientific name and the family of said tree.

I prefer to say that my experience was quite great, I spend very well looking for species in hills and parks but I must admit that as time went by and less was left for the delivery of the herbarium I was very stressed, I thought I would not finish it and I would get a bad mark.

The places that visited were the hill "La Punta", the nursery of Graneros, the Cajón del Maipo, squares and houses of neighbors. Generally I went out with my family to look for species since as I live in another region my classmates were far away to go out as a group to collect.

In doing my herbarium take me about 7 months because I took care of having species that bloomed at different times of the year (autumn, winter and spring). I really enjoyed doing my herbarium, thanks to that I learned a lot about plants.

Many kisses for my followers, see you next week.

My Postgraduate Studies

Hello to my followers today I will tell you about my Postgraduate Studies.

As I said in previous blogs the reason for studying forest engineering is because I really like ornithology (the study of birds).

I still do not know very well that postgraduates are related to birds but I have decided that this is my choice.

I chose this option because I feel a commitment to the birds, since always wanted to take care of them and protect them, and I think this is the right way to help these animals with feathers. The topics that I would like to study within my subject of postgraduate degree would relate mainly to questions.

What are birds, what is the relationship of birds and humans, how to conserve the habitat of birds, etc. I think with this knowledge

you can generate awareness in people.

I would like to take this course in Chile, specifically at the University of Chile, with classroom classes and outings to learn from the

native animals of my country and do studies related to them. In the not too distant future I want to belong to the Union of Ornithologists of Chile and fulfill my dream of following the steps of my example to follow: Professor Cristián Estades.

Many kisses for my followers, see you next week.