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Hummingbird
Migration Update: May 10, 2007 |
Today's
Report Includes:
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Please
Report
Your Sightings! >> |
Photo:
Damon Calderwood >
Looking
a little ruffled?
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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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Handouts:
Today's Hummingbird Map Questions
Rufous Questions >
Rubythroat
Questions >
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Highlights:
Nearing
the Home Stretch!
Connect the dots? That's hard to do, because so
many new ones popped up on the Rubythroat map this week! Play
the week-by-week animation to see for yourself where these frantic
flyers have been spotted. >>
Rufous
hummers continue trickling eastward, feeding on abundant wildflowers
and insects at high elevations. They need to bulk up for their
trips south, which begin as early as mid-July! Did you know that
Rufous hummers travel farther north than any other hummingbirds:
up to 61N latitude? Check our live map. How close are the northern
sightings in Alaska to this limit? >>
Don't
forget to read what
some keen-eyed observers shared this week: Hummingbird
Action reports! >
Then,
come back next week for another short update, and keep looking
and listening for hummers near you!
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Journal:
Pictures Tell a Story
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What
can you discover when you visit a Rufous nest stuffed with two nestlings?
Use your observation skills, then write about what you see in your Hummingbird
Journal!
- What's
Happening in this Nest? (photos) >>
- Write
your observations in your Hummingbird Journal. >>
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Photo:
Damon Calderwood > |
Teachers:
The migration is wrapping up in the next few weeks!
What
Have We Learned?
Hummingbird Migration Assessment Tools >> |
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Year-end
Evaluation: Please Share Your Thoughts! >> |
Will
you take a few minutes to complete our Year-end Evaluation?
Only with
your help can we document Journey North's reach, impact and value. The
information you provide is critical for planning new initiatives and for
improving Journey North. Thank you! |
Year-end
Evaluation >>
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This
Week's Hummingbird Resources |
- Assessment:
Journey North's Strategies and Tools >>
- Student
Worksheets: Cultivating Keen Observers >>
- Habitat
How-to : Fill
'Er Up: Keep a Hummingbird Feeder >>
- Slideshow:
A Peek into a Hummingbird Nest >>
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The
Next Hummingbird Migration Update Will Be Posted on May 17, 2007
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