![]() (CAVEAT: Ruby-throat numbers at the Center typically drop precipitously after 15 September, so the bulk of our hummingbird work for this year is likely finished.) ![]() That also made the current banding season our 12th time to go over 200 bandings and our sixth-best year since 1984-with at least three weeks to go before hummers are mostly gone. This brought our 2020 total for RTHU to 235-an exciting 137% of our 37-year annual average for hummers banded through mid-September. In all we banded 87 individuals of 17 species from 5-15 September, but the sizable majority of them- 56, to be exact-were just one species: Ruby-throated Hummingbirds, captured in mist nets or pull-string traps. (Scroll to the bottom of this page for a list of all bandings and recaptures during the period.)Īll text, maps, charts & photos © Hilton Pond Center (Note the nearly indescribable yellow-green crown and back of the chestnut-sided in the image below.) Yes, we banded only one or two of each, but they presaged what we hope will become a torrent of southbound migrants in late September and early October. The early half of September 2020 brought Hilton Pond Center's first real evidence for fall migration with the arrival of such Neotropical species as Tennessee Warbler, Northern Waterthrush, Swainson's Thrush, and Chestnut-sided Warbler-all immature birds. ![]() Subscribe for free to our award-winning nature newsletter
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