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[Fwd: Allen's Hummingbird]
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: [Fwd: Allen's Hummingbird]
- From: Shelley Theye <veery@bellsouth.net>
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 12:36:21 -0500
- Delivered-to: pardo@metalab.unc.edu
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
>
> From: "Susan Campbell" <ncaves@utinet.net>
> Date: 2003/03/18 Tue AM 09:49:46 EST
> To: "Shelley Theye" <veery@bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Allen's Hummingbird
>
> Dear Shelley and Carolinabirders,
>
> I am afraid I cannot say when the Allen's Hummingbird may leave. I asked
> Bob Sargent the same question, figuring that since the bird is not finished
> flight feather molt (outermost P10 still juvenile and adult P 8&9 coming in)
> that he may be in-residence a while. But Bob said not necessarily. He
> could leave on the next warm (with southerly breezes) day--or before. Also
> the fierce migrant male Ruby-throats will begin passing through out there
> any time and one of them may run him off. These adults in breeding
> condition are MUCH more territorial than the winter birds the Allen's was
> able to intimidate. We will just have to wait and see. Not good news if
> you cannot make it out there in the very near future I know...
>
> Susan Campbell
> Whispering Pines, NC
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