B.A. Environmental Studies
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ
Felix Ratcliff focused on sustainable agriculture and natural history while at UCSC, and has since pursued his interest in natural history. In the spring of 2007 he was a teaching assistant for a natural history field class taught through Humboldt State University. Felix spent the summer interning at UC Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. This internship took place mainly in the field and exposed him to various kinds of field work, mainly with birds and mammals. The fieldwork was a mixture of observational studies (auditory and visual surveys of birds), field collection and museum specimen preparation of both birds and mammals. Since Felix has been working for Condor Country, he has taken part in construction site monitoring, California red-legged frog monitoring, San Francisco garter snake trapping, Swainson’s hawk monitoring, bird nest surveys, road mortality surveys, herpetological and small mammal trapping, San Joaquin kit fox and California burrowing owl burrow surveys, wetland delineation, GPS surveys of monitored areas, and recording data from animal track collection stations.