News Items
5/3/08 Songbird Essentials joins the Society as a Corporate Sponsor
Songbird Essentials, who designs and manufactures bird-related products (many of them for hummingbirds!), is a division of Gold Crest Distributing of Mexico, Missouri. Gold Crest supplies over 1,900 of America's leading bird stores. We welcome their support of the Society and of hummingbirds.
5/1/08 Artist Diane Borgman dedicates 10% of all art sales to the Hummingbird Society!
What do you do if you love to paint hummingbirds and want to be sure they are protected in the future? Artist Diane Borgman of Apex, North Carolina has made her choice: she is donating 10% of her art sales each month to the Hummingbird Society! Thank you, Diane--may the hummingbirds bless you for your generosity. You can see Diane's work very soon at her website, www.dianeborgman.com.
(If you're an artist or have a business and would like to set up a similar plan, give us a call.)
4/30/08 A DVD with a hummingbird lesson plan for teachers--available only to members of the Hummingbird Society
Nature Video Classroom has announced it is offering a hummingbird DVD, "Hummingbirds! A Natural History," that comes with PDF lesson files. The Hummingbird Society has reviewed the DVD and recommends it without reservation. We have long wanted to assist teachers who recognize the attractiveness of hummingbirds as a means to study science-related topics. After all, teaching about hummingbirds is part of our mission! The cost is $24.50 to members; membership starts at $30 per year. Call us at (800)529-3699 to place your order.
4/09/08 SweetBeak.com, a new website, is donating 10% of sales to the Hummingbird Society.
SweetBeak.com, a new website for hummingbird lovers that offers a line of feeders known for their artistic design and other garden accessories, began operation today.
The designers of the site wanted to show their support of the Society in fulfilling its mission of teaching about hummingbirds and working to prevent their extinction. Ten per cent (10%) of all sales on the site will be donated to the Society. In addition to offering some of the nation's most popular feeders, the site gives suggestions for attracting hummers, and sports a gallery of hummingbird photos uploaded by visitors. We hope you'll check out the site to support the generous motivations of the site's creators.
And don't forget: Mother's Day is just around the corner!
4/01/08 The 2008 Arizona Highlands Garden Conference asks Executive Director Dr. H. Ross Hawkins to be a presenter October 13-14, 2008
3/01/08 Expedition to Chile planned as part of Juan Fernández Firecrown(JFF) Project
The Hummingbird Society is organizing a small expedition to document progress in protecting this Critically
Endangered hummingbird species from extinction. Participants will include Executive Director Dr. Ross Hawkins, photographer
Dr. Juan Bahamon, videographer Tom Kaminski, and scientist Dr. Thomas Zuechner of Germany.
The Society needs support to make this trip affordable. In particular, we ask help in getting American Airlines frequent-flyer
miles (need 3 each of 35,000 miles) and Delta frequent-flyer miles (165,000 miles). Cash contributions are also being sought
to cover the flight from Santiago to Isla Robinson Crusoe (approximately 4 x $450) and to cover lodging. If you can help in
any of these areas, it will help us free up more funds for direct conservation. Please call us at (800) 529-3699 or email us
at info@hummingbirdsociety.org - and thanks in advance!
2/01/08 20th annual Hummer/Bird Celebration, September 14-17, 2008, to feature Executive Director Dr. H. Ross Hawkins as a presenter
The nation's largest hummingbird event (mostly) is the Hummer/Bird Celebration, held in Rockport/Fulton, Texas every September. The event is timed to match the peak population of southbound Ruby-throated Hummingbirds as they migrate to their winter grounds in Mexico and other parts of Central America. A rich assortment of speakers will share their knowledge and stories to a crowd of hummingbird lovers. It's an ideal event to meet banders, rehabilitators, scientists, authors, photographers, etc. Friendships made there last for years!
12/12/07 Sedona Hummingbirds! a new and free e-newsletter is created, becomes our second e-newsletter
The Hummingbird Society announced the creation of a new e-newsletter targeted
for the area in and around Sedona, Arizona, where the Society has its offices.
Called Sedona Hummingbirds! the newsletter joins the
original and still active Hummingbirds On-Line!
Information in Sedona Hummingbirds! will be specific to the greater Sedona region, although some content will apply to many areas of the American Southwest.
It is not necessary to live in Sedona or to be a member of the Hummingbird Society to receive Sedona Hummingbirds! by e-mail.
Interested? Sign up here.
12/8/07 Web site revision underway
The Hummingbird Society today launched the first pages of its newly revised website. Because the pages will be revised one by one, visitors my see both old and new formats for a period of weeks. We ask your indulgence for inconsistencies and for brief outage periods during the revision.
Experienced website designers who see opportunities for improvement are invited to offer their suggestions.
12/8/07 Member Newsletter <revised 4/9>
The next issue of The Hummingbird Connection, the Society member newsletter, will be mailed in April. It will be a double issue, combining the September and December Quarter. Delays are attributable to a reassigning of editorial responsibilities.
11/27/07 Free hummingbird e-letter, "Hummingbirds On-Line!",
to resume soon
After a pause of many months, Hummingbirds On-Line!, the official e-newsletter of the Hummingbird Society, will be resuming shortly. When our previous e-mail distribution provider abruptly closed down its operations, it became necessary to find a new provider. We settled on EZezine, which has the highest reputation (an important consideration, as we do not wish our e-mail newsletters to be misjudged as spam).
We regret that our list of prior subscribers could not be uploaded to the database of the new provider. If you are in this group, it will be necessary for you to re-send your e-mail address using the link below. Sign up here.
11/20/07 Sedona Hummingbird Interest Group Starts Up
As part of its community outreach program, the Hummingbird Society has initiated a monthly hummingbird interest group.
If you live in the Greater Sedona Arizona area and would like to be on our notification list for time an location of the S.H.I.G. meetings, please send an email to us with the subject "Add to S.H.I.G." List.
11/17/07 Exec. Director Hawkins speaks at Festival of the Cranes, Bosque del Apache NWR
9/16/07 Exec. Director Hawkins speaks at 19th Hummer/Bird Celebration, Rockport TX
8/1/07 Hummingbird Society (USA) forms alliance with the Hummingbird Conservancy (Colombia)
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A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed by the two organizations stating that they will work together on projects focused on conservation of the endangered hummingbird species in the Americas. Additional information will be released in the future. The Hummingbird Conservancy is focused on species in Colombia.
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