During the first half of November we were away from York SC to
present a paper at the 12th Congress of the Society for Mesoamerican
Biodiversity, held this year in El Salvador. While there we were
asked to lead a workshop on hummingbird banding for a group of
Salvador biologists who accompanied us to Cerro Verde National Park.
We hope you're interested in the results of our week in the tropics,
which we've chronicled in the 1-15 November 2008 installment of "This
Week at Hilton Pond."
To view our travelog--complete with photos of Salvadoran flora and
fauna and a very special Ruby-throated Hummingbird--please visit our
latest essay at http://www.hiltonpond.org/ThisWeek081101.html .
As always we include a list of birds banded or recaptured back at Hilton Pond.
And by the way, after our week in El Salvador we spent another seven
days in Guatemala, but that's the topic for next week's posting! :-)
If you're doing any on-line shopping for the holidays, please
consider doing so through iGive.com at
http://www.igive.com/welcome/warmwelcome.cfm?c=25243 . A portion of
your purchase price goes to support the education, research, and
conservation work of Hilton Pond Center and "Operation RubyThroat:
The Hummingbird Project."
Happy Nature Watching!
BILL
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RESEARCH PROGRAM
c/o BILL HILTON JR. Executive Director
Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History
1432 DeVinney Road, York, South Carolina 29745 USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED], (803) 684-5852, eFax: (503) 218-0845
Please visit our web sites (courtesy of Comporium.net):
Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History at http://www.hiltonpond.org
"Operation RubyThroat: The Hummingbird Project" at http://www.rubythroat.org
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