Hummingbird Migration Report: 2024

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let's talk about the Hummer migration
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you want to yeah we're on the back side
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of Hummer, most of hummingbirds are out
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of the United States and down into
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Central America as they should be most
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of them and they'll be coming back in
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really very late February down on the
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coast and into March April and May up
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into the northern states but not all of
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they go down to Central America quite a
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few actually not Forge but quite a few
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migrate Within
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the United States and we want to
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show you a great feeder to be able to
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watch those who stay but first explain
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this map a little it's not current this
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is about three weeks ago what
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would have happened but what can you
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tell us what are we seeing well you're
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looking at a lot of hummingbirds in the
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Eastern part of United States mostly one
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species the ruby-throated hummingbird
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coming from Canada and actually in some
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cases much further north than that
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and then moving down through the United
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States down to Florida down to the Gulf
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Coast down to Mexico and into Central
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America and they're pretty widespread so
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you're going to see a lot of birds in
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the fall time as they move South and try
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to fatten up on the way whereas in the
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springtime coming in routes
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you won't see them as much
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because if you're in the South part of
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the United States they're in a hurry to
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get to their breeding grounds claim
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their territory and get busy and the
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males come in first males migrate out
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first the females come in second Etc why
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does that happen I guess it's the males
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come in and set up their territory and
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wait for the females yeah okay that's
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that's it and the males don't
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have anything to do with raising young
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of course, the females don't either in
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the case of the hummingbirds they don't
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once the babies are out that's pretty
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much it they may hang around just a
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little bit but it's not there's no
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parental love there okay they're on
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their own and fascinatingly the little
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birds know exactly what to do &
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where to go wow they pretty much know
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where they're supposed to go to when it
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comes fall time they'll head wherever
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they are supposed to I do want to show
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too in case you're interested in keep
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your feeders out for the winter because
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some Hummers just stay around right they
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do we've started learning this 20-30
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years ago with research and stuff and we
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started finding Birds here in the
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Southeast and they weren't ruby herein
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the Southeast they were Western species
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of birds well so what's wrong with this
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picture right but a lot of the Rufus
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will come from the Western us and
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migrate to the eastern US especially the
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SE U.S. We
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started seeing more and more of them in
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Georgia and start catching when you know
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snow on the ground I see a
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Hummingbird at a feeder & it's
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fine and they live we know this because
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they've been trapped banded or Tagged so
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the next year the bird shows up you put
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it in the same Bird You'll see this
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bird three or four years in a row it's
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like well this is what it's supposed to
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do yeah instead of being in Central
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America it's in the southeastern United
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States we hear report some being
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far north as New York during the winter
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time we don't know the survivability of
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them as well but we know they live well
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in the Southeast so other species too
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there's now in Georgia instead of just
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one species we have 13 species of hummingbirds
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that's been captured and tagged in the
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in the Southern United States in Georgia
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wow almost all the species native to the
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United
States
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[@kelcritcarroll]

I always have at least 12 pairs here ba,d h ve for forty yrs by Ut this yr i only have one male and its may 20

[@TSUNAMI-MAMI]

Hope you have more hummers by now!