Adult male Calliope!

["Will Cook" <cwcook@duke.edu>]

Ginger Travis has a beautiful adult male Calliope Hummingbird coming to her 
Pinapple Sage patch in Orange Co., NC.  I managed to get some photos of this 
little guy yesterday morning as he perched in a Sourwood tree above the 
patch:  

http://www.duke.edu/~cwcook/pix/calliope.html

Last winter Susan Campbell banded a hummer near here that she thought at 
first to was a Calliope. Kent Fiala scoped this bird in search of a leg band 
and saw none, and Susan Campbell also took a look at the bird and will 
attempt to band it later (hummers are very difficult to capture when they're 
not coming to a feeder).  

If you'd like to look for the bird, contact Ginger at 919-942-7746 (h) or 
Ginger@athena.dev.unc.edu (w).


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Charles W. "Will" Cook                  w 919-660-7423
http://www.duke.edu/~cwcook            cwcook@duke.edu
Biology Dept., Duke Univ., Box 90340, Durham, NC 27708