User:Lord.of.the.Proterozoic

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 on occasion, 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.

Some of my major contributions include:

• List of Grevillea species
• Ground parrot
• Red-rumped parrot
• Hakea pulvinifera
• Grevillea caleyi
• Grevillea rivularis
• Grevillea exul
• Page creation for the Illawarra Grevillea Park
• Page creation for Grevillea rubiginosa
• Page creations for various stromatolite species of the Proterozoic eon of Australia

I hope you have a wonderful day!

My iNaturalist profile: https://www.inaturalist.org/people/proteros

My eBird profile: https://ebird.org/profile/MjI4OTgyMQ

All of my images are free to use under the Creative Commons CC-BY license unless otherwise specified.

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| Illawarra_Grevillea_Park_1.jpg

| The Illawarra Grevillea Park.

| Grevillea_banyabba_flowers.jpg

| Grevillea banyabba at Illawarra Grevillea Park.

| Grevillea_montana1.jpg

| A pair of fully-developed Grevillea montana flowers at the Illawarra Grevillea Park.

| Grevillea_montana2.png

|A single Grevillea montana flower at the Illawarra Grevillea Park.

| G. sericea Illawarra Grevillea Park 1.jpg

|A Grevillea sericea inflorescence at the Illawarra Grevillea Park

| G. sericea Illawarra Grevillea Park 2.jpg

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| G. speciosa Illawarra Grevillea Park 1.jpg

|A Grevillea speciosa inflorescence at the Illawarra Grevillea Park

| Grevillea paradoxa Illawarra Grevillea Park.jpg

|A Grevillea paradoxa inflorescence at the Illawarra Grevillea Park.

| Grevillea sphacelata Royal National Park.jpg

|A Grevillea sphacelata inflorescence at the Royal National Park near Heathcote.

| Caley's grevillea inflorescense 1.jpg

|A Grevillea caleyi inflorescence in the Terrey Hills region.

| Caley's grevillea inflorescense 2.jpg

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| Caley's grevillea inflorescense 3.jpg

| Grevillea caleyi growing along a road verge in the Terrey Hills area.

| Caley's grevillea seed pods 1.jpg

| Follicles or seed pods of Grevillea caleyi.

| Caley's grevillea new leaf growth 1.jpg

| New growth of Grevillea caleyi leaves

| Grevillea buxifolia closeup.jpg

| Closeup of Grevillea buxifolia inflorescence in the Terrey Hills area.

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| Immature_male_red_rumped_parrot.jpg

| Immature male red-rumped parrot showing remnant juvenile plumage.

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