摘要：I was a young self-taught naturalist with a passion for the native and endemic birds in my little Island of Floreana in the Galápagos. I was very eager to be the field assistant to any scientist who arrived to Floreana. When I was 6-7 years old Dr. Robert Bowman used to grant me the honor to help him getting the finches into the mist net and then giving me some of the little birds to let them free. Later on I worked with several scientists and become more and more aware of my pas- sion for nature and the problems some of the species faced..
