Post by Steve Backes on Aug 8, 2009 13:07:54 GMT -5
The following was posted to Humnet today by Bill Hilton Jr., Operation RubyThroat:
I'm pleased to announce the on-line logging forms for Ruby-throated Hummingbird observations are finally live on the EarthTrek project's Web site! See goearthtrek.com/
EarthTrek is a new citizen science initiative open to anyone interested in collecting and submitting data about various phenomena.
(So far there are three projects.) Since many of you CarolinaBirders are already keeping notes about RTHU, I encourage you to register with EarthTrek and become part of this exciting venture. It's FREE and your data can help us better understand hummer migration and breeding biology.
This work is not intended to replace Lanny Chambers' long-time efforts but to supplement them, so in future years please continue to submit spring data to him. It also opens the teacher-student hummer protocols I designed for The GLOBE Program to a much wider audience.
If you live in southern Canada or the 38 eastern U.S. states (or DC) you can submit data about 2009 first sightings of male & female RTHU as well as your observations about any RTHU nests you may have found this season. Because of some unanticipated glitches it took EarthTrek longer than expected to get the forms up and running; it would have been nice to have had them available during spring migration, but better now than never! :-)
This fall you'll also be able to report LAST sightings of 2009 for RTHU, based on age and sex (as described in the on-line protocols).
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you have good migration and/or nesting records from PREVIOUS years, you can submit them at this time using the same forms.
Anyone in Mexico and Central America can also participate by submitting info about fall arrival and spring departure dates for RTHU in the Neotropics.
Please forward this e-mail to anyone you know who'd like to participate.
Happy Hummingbird Watching,
Bill Hilton Jr., Principal Investigator
"Operation RubyThroat: The Hummingbird Project"
York, South Carolina USA
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OPERATION RUBYTHROAT: The Hummingbird Project BILL HILTON JR., Principal Investigator Executive Director Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History, 1432 DeVinney Road, York, South Carolina 29745 USA
Voice: (803) 684-5852; e-Fax: (503) 218-0845
Operation RubyThroat:The Hummingbird Project ( www.rubythroat.org ) is a cross-disciplinary international initiative in which students, teachers, and others collaborate to study behavior and distribution of the Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris). All worldwide rights reserved and copyrighted by Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History ( www.hiltonpond.org ).
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I'm pleased to announce the on-line logging forms for Ruby-throated Hummingbird observations are finally live on the EarthTrek project's Web site! See goearthtrek.com/
EarthTrek is a new citizen science initiative open to anyone interested in collecting and submitting data about various phenomena.
(So far there are three projects.) Since many of you CarolinaBirders are already keeping notes about RTHU, I encourage you to register with EarthTrek and become part of this exciting venture. It's FREE and your data can help us better understand hummer migration and breeding biology.
This work is not intended to replace Lanny Chambers' long-time efforts but to supplement them, so in future years please continue to submit spring data to him. It also opens the teacher-student hummer protocols I designed for The GLOBE Program to a much wider audience.
If you live in southern Canada or the 38 eastern U.S. states (or DC) you can submit data about 2009 first sightings of male & female RTHU as well as your observations about any RTHU nests you may have found this season. Because of some unanticipated glitches it took EarthTrek longer than expected to get the forms up and running; it would have been nice to have had them available during spring migration, but better now than never! :-)
This fall you'll also be able to report LAST sightings of 2009 for RTHU, based on age and sex (as described in the on-line protocols).
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you have good migration and/or nesting records from PREVIOUS years, you can submit them at this time using the same forms.
Anyone in Mexico and Central America can also participate by submitting info about fall arrival and spring departure dates for RTHU in the Neotropics.
Please forward this e-mail to anyone you know who'd like to participate.
Happy Hummingbird Watching,
Bill Hilton Jr., Principal Investigator
"Operation RubyThroat: The Hummingbird Project"
York, South Carolina USA
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OPERATION RUBYTHROAT: The Hummingbird Project BILL HILTON JR., Principal Investigator Executive Director Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History, 1432 DeVinney Road, York, South Carolina 29745 USA
Voice: (803) 684-5852; e-Fax: (503) 218-0845
Operation RubyThroat:The Hummingbird Project ( www.rubythroat.org ) is a cross-disciplinary international initiative in which students, teachers, and others collaborate to study behavior and distribution of the Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris). All worldwide rights reserved and copyrighted by Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History ( www.hiltonpond.org ).
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