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From: sandee@sun16 (Daan Sandee)
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Subject: Re: Hummingbird lists
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Date: 21 Aug 90 12:45:06 GMT
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In article <33215@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu (David Mark) writes:
>22   The number of species of hummingbirds on the ABA (USA + Canada)
>     Checklist, now that Xantus' has been added.
You beat me to it. I researched the subject last night, and had intended to
supply the information today. I have the usual problem of not having my
birding library and my computer in the same place.
The AOU lists 21 species - they don't recognize Cuban Emerald or Xantus',
but list Rufous-tailed (one record in Brownsville, TX ; haven't chased it
down yet to see why ABA doesn't recognize it).
 
>16   The number of hummingbird species "which regularly occur north of the
>     Mexican border" in North America, according to the ABA's "Traveler's
>     List and Check List"
Also deSante & Pyle, who also list Rufous-tailed, so it must be a post-1935
record.
It's a subjective matter, though ; I readily concede Violet-crowned, and
Lucifer and White-eared are annual, but I have my doubts about Berylline.
 
>15   The number of hummingbird species seen in the US in 1979 by Jim Vardaman
>     as part of his 1979 "Big Year" record (since broken) of 699 species.
>     (All the "regulars" except Berylline.)  (Source: "Call Collect and Ask
>     for Birdman" by Jim Vardaman.)
Aha! I can beat that! Steve Perry, in "The Loonatic Journals", claims 17
species in his Big Year 1987 (which topped out at 711).
 
>14   My ABA-area hummingbird species life-time total.  (All of the regulars
>     except Berylline and Violet-crowned.)
> 8   The single-DAY record for hummingbird species, set in Ramsey Canyon and
>     the Huachuca, southeast Arizona, April 25 1979, by Benton Basham, Jon
>     Dunn, Stephen Dresman, Joe Taylor, and Jim Tucker.  (Source: "The 
>     Pettingell Book of Birding Records".)
We can safely assume that Basham also has the ABA area lifetime record.
 
> 0   The number of hummingbirds I have ever seen in my yard!
>
Same here. Also, species seen in home state (FL) : 1.
Although some strays turn up at Tallahassee feeders each winter, and are
variously described as Rufous, Allen's, Anna's, or Broad-tailed.
>
>David Mark
>dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu

Daan Sandee                                           sandee@sun16.scri.fsu.edu
Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4052  (904) 644-7045