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From: dmark@acsu.Buffalo.EDU (David Mark)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: hummingbird rehabilitation/keeping cat away from aviary
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Date: 9 Jan 90 18:32:36 GMT
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In article <97783@pyramid.pyramid.com> sandra@pyrtech.pyramid.com (Sandra Macika) writes:
>In article <1267@wrgate.WR.TEK.COM> denise@dadla.WR.TEK.COM (Denise Caire) writes:
>>
>>Do humming birds migrate?  If they do, where to?
>>
>>Denise Caire
>
>They sure do. I know that they migrate all up and down the Western Coast of
>North and South America. I am sure other ares too.
>
>Sandra

Well, actually, *most* US hummingbirds migrate out of the US, to winter in
Mexico or even further south.  We (US and Canada) have two non-migratory 
breeding species: Anna's Hummingbird, very common in much of Cailfornia, 
wintering regularly at least as far north as Vancouver, Canada (where in winter 
they are feeder-dependent); and Buff-bellied Hummingbird, resident in the Lower 
Rio Grande Valley of Texas, and south into Mexico.

Most of the hummingbirds live in the American tropics, and are non-migratory,
but often with seasonal altitudinal movements.  I would expect a few
migratory ones in temperate southern South America.

David Mark