Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 18:52:05 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Maurice Barnhill Subject: Re: Hummingbird Migration Routes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Steve Huy wrote: >allowing for many not being found that is a fairly small percentage.> > >Do you think that 524 comes anywhere close to what is actually here? >You can't say one way or another. There are few feeders up this time >of year to attract them to where birders will see them. They may not >need feeders to survive. They are extremely tiny and hard to find and >not many people are going out and doing thorough searches for them this >time of year. > > No, I don't think that 524 is anywhere near the total number that stray. But even if as many as 10 are missed for each one found it is a small percentage of the population. Just compare the number of western Hummingbirds found around here as you could find in their normal wintering range. There are as many around one feeder in southern California as are found in all of Maryland. >Or 524 (or less if soem are counted twice) could be it. Be careful in >making such statements. > I said originally "even allowing for many not being found" so I really think I was plenty careful. >Even the experts know next to nothing on this. > >======================================================================= >To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com >with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey >======================================================================= > > > -- Maurice Barnhill mvb@udel.edu [Use ReplyTo, not From] [bellatlantic.net is reserved for spam only] Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716 ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================