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Citizen Science (part 1)
In December of 2004, in the middle of North America’s winter, Bill Hilton Jr. and his team of citizen scientists were in the tropical Guanacaste Province of Costa Rica. On that trip, they became the...
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Operation RubyThroat: The Hummingbird Project
Through “Operation RubyThroat: The Hummingbird Project”, Holbrook Travel and Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History offers citizen science expeditions each year as part of the only in-depth...
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Operation Rubythroat – November 2012
Bill Hilton Jr. recently returned from Costa Rica on another Operation Rubythroat citizen science expedition. Since 2004, hummingbird expert Bill has been traveling to Central America to study...
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Trip Report: Operation RubyThroat in Costa Rica
The first half of November I was in Costa Rica’s Orosi Valley for our 22nd Operation RubyThroat citizen science expedition to the Neotropics. Mist netting and live-trapping operations were centered at...
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Operation RubyThroat in Honduras
Dr. Bill Hilton Jr. and his Operation RubyThroat colleague Ernesto Carmen traveled to Honduras for a nine-day trip scouting for Ruby-throated Hummingbirds.
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Video: Operation RubyThroat in the News
Dr. Bill Hilton Jr. was recently featured as a “hometown hero” by his local news channel CN2 in South Carolina for his dedication to environmental research.
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Operation RubyThroat Celebrates 25th Citizen Science Hummingbird Expedition
A note from Dr. Bill Hilton Jr.: We will be celebrating the March 2015 Operation RubyThroat trip to Belize as my 25th citizen science hummingbird expedition to the Neotropics, where after ten years...
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