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(Fwd) Media picks up on hummer



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From:           	"Brian Murphy" <brmurphy@mindspring.com>
To:             	<carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu>
Subject:        	Media picks up on hummer
Date sent:      	Tue, 28 Nov 2000 17:01:20 -0500

http://www.wral-tv.com/news/state/North_Carolina/NC--RareHummingbird_____=TOPAP.html

Brian T. Murphy   http://brmurphy.home.mindspring.com/
Millbrook High School    http://schools.wcpss.net/MillbrookHigh
Raleigh, NC USA
919-850-8787

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Here's the full text of the article.  Who is Connie Love?

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Rare Hummingbird Shows up in Charlotte Woman's Yard  

Charlotte-AP -- An exotic hummingbird that showed up in a Charlotte woman's 
back yard is drawing visitors from hundreds of miles away.  

The green-breasted mango landed in Connie Love's yard two weeks ago. The 
young male bird is more than a thousand miles north of its natural habitat.  

The bird has been slipping its curved beak and slender tongue into the sweet 
liquid in the hummingbird feeder outside the Charlotte woman's window.  

The species lives in Central and South America. It grows to about four and a 
half inches -- about an inch longer than the ruby-throated hummingbird.  

Birdwatchers say the green-breasted mango has never  turned up on the East  
Coast before. 

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Box 90340, Biology Dept., Duke Univ., Durham, NC 27708