Hummingbirds In Costa Rica: UjarraPaz '18

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THIS WEEK at HILTON POND
19-31 January 2018

Installment #668---Visitor #

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Our 30th
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Citizen Science Hummingbird Expedition
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Costa Rica-East (Paraíso/Ujarrás)
++ 31 Oct thru 8 Nov 2018 ++

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Lesson's Motmot, above right (formerly Blue-crowned Motmot)

HUMMINGBIRDS IN COSTA RICA:
UJARRAPAZ '18

On 19 January 2018 we departed Hilton Pond Center for Costa Rica and our 28th Neotropical expedition as part of Operation RubyThroat: The Hummingbird Project. It takes a long time to process all the photos and data for our on-line trip summary, so please check back later for the final version. (We'll post to Facebook, send messages to listservs, and e-mail our subscribers when everything is complete.)

NOTE: We did return to the Center 28 January 2018 and quickly refilled the empty seed feeders. (There was still quite a bit of suet available.) Then we spent the last three days of the month playing catch-up and doing a little bird banding. Scroll down on this page to see those somewhat paltry capture results.

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This adult male Volcano Hummingbird (above) was perched on territory near the apex of Irazú Volcano above Cartago, Costa Rica in January 2018. An endemic species, Selasphorus flammula, it breeds only in the high mountains of Costa Rica and Chiriqui, Panama. Volcano Hummingbirds are slightly smaller than Ruby-throated Hummingbirds, Archilochus colubris.

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BIRDS BANDED THIS WEEK at HILTON POND CENTER 19-31 January 2018
SPECIES BANDED THIS PERIOD: American Goldfinch--13 * = new banded species for 2018 PERIOD BANDING TOTAL: 1 species 13 individuals 2018 BANDING TOTAL: 10 species (37-yr. avg. = 63.5) 109 individuals (37-yr. avg. = 1,811.0 Ruby-throated Hummingbirds = 0 37-YEAR BANDING GRAND TOTAL: (Banding began 28 June 1982; since then 171 species have been observed on or over the property.) 126 species banded 66,984 individuals banded Ruby-throated Hummingbirds = 5,971 NOTABLE RECAPTURES THIS WEEK: (with original banding date, sex, and current age): House Finch (1) 06/23/17--2nd year female CLICK ON THE IMAGE BELOW TO VISIT OUR FACEBOOK PAGE	OTHER NATURE NOTES: --As of 31 Jan Hilton Pond Center's 2018 Yard List stood at 38--about 22% of the 171 avian species encountered locally since 1982 and a very good start for the year (If you're not keeping a yard list for your own property we encourage you to do so, and to report sightings via eBird.) New species this week: Common Grackle. --Our immediate past installment of "This Week at Hilton Pond" was a potpourri of nature happenings from early Jan 2018. It is archived and always available on the Center's Web site as Installment #667. All text & photos © Hilton Pond Center

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