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Fw: Rufous movement in winter




Dear All,

This is a post that Bob Sargent sent to Humnet yesterday.  He gave me
permission to pass it on and I figured you all would be interested.  Just
goes to illustrate the value of our hummer banding at this time of year---
and how little we actually know at this point.


> Humnetters
> A little trivia to stimulate the juices:
> On November 28th, 2000 Martha Gail and I banded a immature female Rufous
in a
> surburb of Ashville, North Carolina.  I marked it yellow on the crown.
The
> marking was done because the hummer hosts suspected two birds at their
> feeders.  It remained at the original site through December 5th, 2000.
>
> On December 20th, 2000, this brightly marked female Rufous showed up at a
> residence some 20 miles NORTH of the original banding site.  All of this
was
> before the bitter cold of the last couple of weeks, but it does give some
> insights into how these tiny creatures move about in winter, even
northward.
> Yet another hummer that survived the first frost (that bulge you see is my
> tongue in my cheek).
>
> This update is compliments of Sy and Janet Desloges, owners of a couple of
> beautiful Wild Birds Unlimited stores in Ashville and Hendersonville,
North
> Carolina.  The magic of the hummer-networking is alive and well.  Thanks
guys.
>
> Bob Sargent
> Trussville, Alabama


And believe it or not, there are more unbanded hummers in the Asheville area
that I hope to get to soon...

Susan Campbell
NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Affiliate