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• Information Wanted on Sightings of Color-marked Hummingbirds
  
• Hummingbird Super-stimulus Experiment 2003 begins
  
• Vagrant & winter hummingbird banding
  
• Operation RubyThroat affiliates with The GLOBE Program
  
• Order the highgly coveted Operation RubyThroat T-Shirt
  
• Hilton Pond Center and Operation RubyThroat receives $294,000 in grants
  
• Seven Carolinas schools selected for Schoolyard Hummigbird Gardens
  
• Student and teacher field test reports for Operation RubyThroat (Spring 2001)
  
• Hilton Pond Center and Operation RubyThroat expand national Board of Trustees and prestigious Advisory Council
  
• Operation RubyThroat website named a "Hot Site" by USA Today (on-line and print versions)
  
• Operation RubyThroat project featured in Charlotte Magazine for October 2000
  
• Operation RubyThroat website gets stellar review in The Washington (DC) Times
  
• Operation RubyThroat receives significant awards for website design and content
  
• First Hummingbird Tales posted under "Hummingbirds & Culture" section
  
• Comporium hosts Operation RubyThroat website
  
• Operation RubyThroat's first teacher/student groups from York and Columbia, South Carolina
  
• Opportunities exist for in-kind and financial support of Operation RubyThroat, including advertising on this website
  
• Operation RubyThroat Guestbook postings come from across the U.S. and many foreign countries
  
• Operation RubyThroat website goes active on 1 October 1999

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