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Hummingbird
Migration Update: April 12, 2007 |
Today's
Report Includes:
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Please
Report
Your Sightings! >> |
Frozen food for
Rubythroats? >
Photo:
Suzanne DeJohn |
The Migration: Maps,
Questions, and Highlights |
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Distribution Map |
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Rufous
Hummingbird
This
Week's Map >>
Sightings (for your maps) >>
Week-by-Week Animation >> |
Ruby-throated
Hummingbird
This Week's Map >>
Sightings (for your maps) >>
Week-by-Week
Animation >>
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Handout:
Today's Hummingbird Map Questions >>
(Temperature Map to View with Handout
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Highlights:
Weathering
Weather!
A cold snap in the Eastern part of the United States was the name
of the game this week. Journey North observers told tales of frosted
plants, snow, and below-freezing temperatures! It surely stopped
Rubythroats in their tracks. The leading edge of the migration barely
inched northward. Meanwhile, things got interesting out West. Three
Rufous hummer reports came from Alaska! That's not so strange this
time of year, but the creatures showed up more than 600 miles north
of the next closest sighting! How would you explain that?
Explore more in this week's Hummingbird Action reports!
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Also,
keep watching the weather, your feeders, and hummingbird habitats,
then return for next week's full report and slideshow!
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Journal:
Hummers and the Big Chill! |
Weather
maps tell story! > |
Brrr.
After moving north on warm winds, Rubythroats faced the big chill last
week. They must have had a real shock!
- What story
do the weather maps tell?
From Warm to Cold Unseasonably >>
- Journal
Questions Handout: Hummers and The Big Chill >>
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Expert
answers to your hummingbird questions!
You'll find them all here >> |
This
Week's Hummingbird Resources |
- Instructions:
How
to Create a Haven for Hummingbirds >>
- Lesson:
Hummingbird Habitat and the Seasons (What Hummers Need to Survive) >>
- Video
Clip: 15
Seconds with a Male Hummingbird >>
- Mapping:
Key Lessons & Resources: Making, Reading and Interpreting Maps >>
- Hummingbird
Migration Journals (click-and-print) >>
- Hummingbirds
for Kids
(booklets, photos, videos) >>
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The
Next Hummingbird Migration Update Will Be Posted on April 19, 2007
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