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Strong winds helped send rubythroats into Alberta this week. As spring unwinds the maps are filling up with your sighting reports. Watch a slideshow of nestlings that become fledglings. Study the details in the hummingbird field guide created by students in Atlanta, Georgia.
Today's Report Includes:
- Highlights, Maps, and Questions
- Slideshow: Big Babies in the Nest
- Explore: Student Field Guide
- Annual Evaluation: Please Share Your Thoughts
Highlights:
If you put all the sightings onto one map most of the United States would be covered with opportunities to see and feed hummers now.
Strong wind gusts out of the south took the ruby-throated hummingbirds all the way into Saskatchewan and Alberta this past week. Across the midwest the migration continues to move northward into Ontario.
Elsewhere the rufous hummers continue to move east across the Rockies and arrive later than usual. Another Alaskan rufous was sighted May 13.Calliopes and Broad-tails do battle with an oriole as they arrive in Logan, Utah. How many sightings do you predict we will see by next week?
Special highlights below:
05/16/11 Lumsden, Saskatchewan (50.65, -104.87)
At 6:45 pm CST in 70 km winds our first ruby throated arrived to our feeder. Excited to see him back and right on his tail our first Baltimore Oriole. What a thrill!
05/15/11 Miniota, Manitoba (50.17, -100.92)
Now I know that spring is here as I saw my first ruby throated hummer today!
05/14/11 Logan, Utah (41.68, -111.65)
The Black-Chinned and Broad-Tailed Hummingbirds have returned to battle with the Bullock's Orioles for their turns at the feeders. It's good to see those little guys again.
05/13/11 Jackson Hole, Wyoming (43.48, -110.77)
Second day after snow storms subsided and temperature was above 30 F, single bird at 7.30am.
05/11/11 Lundbreck, Alberta (49.58, -114.17)
The kids have been waiting! So happy to see the hummingbirds again this spring
Read all the latest hummingbird sighting reports!
Southern winds predicted to continue into the week.
High Temperatures Predicted
05/18/11
Low Temperatures Predicted
05/19/11
| This Week's Maps Get out your Hummingbird Journals and explore the maps each week. Each map has a large-sized week-to-week animation. |
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Today's Hummingbird Map Questions Handout |
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The nesting season is here in many parts of North America. As the hatchlings grow tiny nests gets smaller. The nestlings gain strength, and begin to show their independence. Explore more in this week's slideshow.
- Slideshow: Outgrowing the Nest
Includes text and photo gallery.
Slideshow
After Slideshow:
What new things did you learn about hummingbirds?
Grab your journal and write:
- 3 challenges you think a young hummer might face when it is first learning independence.
- 2 things a hummingbird knows by instinct and 1 thing it must learn.
- 1 or more questions you have about fledglings.
"How do I remember what the hummers look like?"
Take a tour through a hummingbird field guide created by Grade 3 students in Atlanta, Georgia. This careful study helped the students to really see and draw details for the two hummingbird species tracked by Journey North in the spring.
Their teacher challenged them to really look at the birds: What shapes are in their bodies? What colors are their feathers?
| Teachers: The migration is wrapping up in the next few weeks! What
Have We Learned? |
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Year-end Evaluation: Please Share Your Thoughts
The Next Hummingbird Migration Update Will Be Posted on May 25, 2011.
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