Cascadia Hummingbird Report - Apr 5, 2004

Rufous Hummingbirds arrived in Alaska at mid-week and the
first east side birds arrived in Sisters, OR and White
Lake, BC. Calliope Hummingbirds were reported from several
locations including White Lake.

Madera, CA 03/25/2004 84 36.9806 117.9164
Ucluelet, BC 03/25/2004 84 48.9333 125.5500
Mission, BC 03/28/2004 87 49.1333 122.3000
Ketchikan, AK 03/30/2004 89 55.3525 131.6596
Ketchikan, AK (2) 03/30/2004 89 55.3525 131.6596
Sisters, OR 03/30/2004 89 47.6722 122.6831
Petersburg, AK 03/31/2004 90 49.5000 119.5833
Auke Bay, AK 04/01/2004 91 45.7811 122.5322
Gustavus, AK 04/04/2004 94 58.4133 135.7369
White Lake, BC 04/04/2004 94 50.8833 119.3000

You may own a field guide that says male Rufous Hummingbird
males have red backs and Allen's Hummingbirds have green backs.
Turns out that many Rufous males have green on their backs and
some are nearly all green on the back. We caught a very green-
backed male Rufous at the Neawanna Banding station last week:
http://home.pacifier.com/~neawanna/observatory/thisweekinhand/RUHU2004040101b.JPG
Even though it has a green back, all the measurements we made
are consistent with Rufous Hummingbirds and too large for
Allen's Hummingbird.

For more information on tracking Rufous Hummingbirds see:
http://home.pacifier.com/~neawanna/humm/count.html

--
Mike Patterson
Astoria, OR
celata at pacifier.com

Half-a-bee, philosophically must ipso-facto half not-be.
But half the bee, has got to bee Vis-a-vis its entity...
d'you see?
But can a bee be said to be or not to be an entire bee
When half the bee is not a bee due to some ancient injury?
-Monty Python

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