[TN-Bird] Rufous Hummingbird

On Saturday Aug. 19, NTOS members Mary Zimmerman shrewdly detected an imm/f.
-_Selasphorus-_ hummingbird at her feeders in e. Nashville.  Today, Portia
Macmillan and I banded it and confirmed its identity as an immature female
Rufous Hummingbird.  I have long believed that they pass through in small
numbers in the fall but are almost never detected among the hordes of
Ruby-throats that are now peaking.  This bird adds one more data point in
support of that hypothesis.  The moral of the story:  watch your feeders
closely!  The key is the tale - a _Selasphorus_ will always have extensive
amounts of orange in the outer tale feathers, in addition to extensive rusty
orange flanks (although some Ruby-throats can fool you occasionally on the
latter).
 

Regards,

 

Chris Sloan

Nashville, TN



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