User:Lord.of.the.Proterozoic

About me

Hello, my name is Ben, but you can call me by my username, Lord.of.the.Proterozoic

I am a hobbyist nature photographer from Sydney, Australia. I mainly focus on photographing native birds and wildflowers, particularly my favourite Australian parrot and Proteaceae species.

I volunteer at a botanical garden, as well as at a wildlife park, where I take care of macropods, emus and a variety of aviary birds, including rescued and former pet parrots.

My other hobbies and interests include:

Palaeontology and evolutionary biology (particularly of ornithopod and theropod dinosaurs and Permian therapsids)
Early Earth history (as my username would suggest!)
Threatened species conservation
Ecology
Ornithology
Taxonomy

I hope to get involved in scientific research and field work of local and endangered species and ecosystems. My main goal is to work with swift, western ground and orange-bellied parrots, as well as the various endangered ecological communities of the Greater Sydney Area.

I also hope to travel across all of Australia to photograph more of our weird and wonderful endemic species.

I hope my contributions to Wikipedia are meaningful and helpful. I want to help make knowledge on subjects I am passionate about more freely and easily accessible to the general public.