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NOW IN OUR 25th YEAR OF PUBLISHING
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Installment #818
33rd Annual York-Rock Hill
Christmas Bird Count Results
(Two New Species);
Plus Late December Bandings
(22-30 December 2023)

Installment #817
Slow Going In December,
But Interesting Returns And
Another Big Milestone
(1-21 December 2023)

Installment #820
Time For A Change:
Hilton Pond's For Sale As We Move
Operations To A New Locale
(1-7 January 2024)

NOTE: December 2023 about end-of year banding totals for Hilton Pond Center will be posted when complete.

Important Information
2022 Bird Banding Summary:
Above Average For Many Species,
New Records For A Few

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EDUCATION at Hilton Pond
-- On-site Guided Field Trips
-- Workshops & Presentations
-------- HUMMINGBIRDS --
---------------- Hummingbirds & Hamburgers: The Tropical Connection
---------------- Hummingbird Mornings™
---------------- "Operation RubyThroat: The Hummingbird Project" (An International Cross-disciplinary Learning Initiative)
---------------- The Hummingbirds of WINTER!
-------- OTHER BIRDS
---------------- The Excitement of Ornithology
---------------- Blue Jays Ain't All Bad: Behavioral Ecology of a Common Bird Species
---------------- Feathers in the Wind: The Story of Hawk Mountain Sanctuary
---------------- Winter Site Fidelity in Purple Finches
---------------- Bluebird Trails: Conservation in Action
---------------- Trends in Eastern Populations of House Finches
---------------- Watching Winter Birds: Better Than Television!
-------- BIRD BANDING
---------------- A Bird in the Hand: The History & Usefulness of Bird Banding
---------------- 42,000 and Counting: 21 Years of Banding Birds at Hilton Pond
-------- WILDFLOWERS
---------------- Simplicity & Complexity: Wildflowers of North America
-------- OTHER NATURE TOPICS
---------------- Critters of the Catawba: Secrets of a Piedmont River
---------------- Tales of "The Piedmont Naturalist"
---------------- Snake Therapy for the Serpentophobic (and Others)
-------- AUSTRALIA & ARIZONA
---------------- Hunting for Honeyeaters: Keeping Things Hopping on Kangaroo Island
---------------- From Saguaros to Sidewinders: The Amazing Arizona Desert
-------- GARDENING
---------------- Fall Plantings for Spring Birds
---------------- Form & Texture in the Winter Garden
---------------- Goin' Natural: Growing Native Plants in Your Own Backyard
-------- MOTIVATIONAL
---------------- Sex Life of the Red-eyed Turtle
---------------- Conservation for the Christian Consumer
-------- EDUCATION TECHNIQUES FOR TEACHERS
---------------- Teaching Science Across the Curriculum
---------------- Overhead Projectors: They're Not Just for Transparencies Anymore
---------------- Why Teachers Don't Take Field Trips, And Why They Must
---------------- The Effects of Alcohol: Evolution in Reverse
---------------- Hummingbirds & Hamburgers & Higher Scores on PACT
-------- SPECIAL TEACHER WORKSHOPS (half-day and full-day; can involve lab & field work)
---------------- Teaching Science Across the Curriculum
---------------- Operation RubyThroat: The Hummingbird Project (Focus on Hummingbirds for Cross-disciplinary Learning)
---------------- Fighting Fire with Fire: Teaching Science to the MTV Generation
---------------- Teaching Science (and Writing and Math!) in Outdoor Settings
---------------- Needles, Leaves, and Trunks: Secret Lives of Trees and Woodlands
---------------- I Can Teach Science!
---------------- Learning Experiences: They're Where You MAKE Them, Not Where You Find Them
---------------- Supervising Long-term Projects: Living the Scientific Method
-------- SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS FOR STUDENTS
---------------- Patience & Perseverance: What Makes a Really Good Scientist-or Science Student?
---------------- Hummingbirds, Hamburgers, and the Need for Minority Biologists
---------------- Meet the Boa Constrictor: Are You a Good Observer?
---------------- Meet the Boa Constrictor: Two-and-a-Half Meters of Math & Science
---------------- Meet the Boa Constrictor: Twisting Our Way Through English (or Social Studies)
-------- WEEK-LONG "NATURALIST-IN-RESIDENCE" PROGRAM
-------- PLUS . . . Lectures, Workshops & Field Trips on any aspect of Natural History, Science Education & Conservation.
-- Consulting Services
-- Operation RubyThroat
-- Mentoring, Student Research, and Internships

PUBLICATIONS from or about Hilton Pond
-- The Piedmont Naturalist, Vol. 1 (1986): A collection of newspaper essays about nature; available now (or very soon) as an e-Book download via Amazon (Kindle), Google Books, Barnes & Noble Nook), and Apple's iTunes Store (iBooks); all proceeds from the sale of the book support education, research, and conservation work of Hilton Pond Center. Volumes 2 & 3 will follow shortly.

-- Other Authors (more to come, we hope!)

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