News Update: April 5, 2007       Name ______________________ 

Hummingbird Map Questions
Look at the Rufous hummingbird migration map and then at this map. This one predicts how much temperatures will vary from normal temperatures during the first week in April.

How does this temperature map help explain the progress of the Rufous hummingbird migration?*

How would Rufous hummers have had trouble meeting their basic needs if they had pushed further north?

* This past week was also wet and windy in much of Western Canada and southern Alaska. March 2007 was the snowiest on record in southern Alaska.