Stephanie and Tom, Cute video - flight of the "Bumblehummer." I have to think that the hummer is of the small kinds which point to Costa's and Calliope (quite chunky). However, the bill does seem a little on the long side for Calliope and to me appears to be decurved a bit. I would agree with Mark's second to last paragraph and think he hit the nail on the head with Costa's. That is my two cents. I like the rufous hummingbird video too - very crisp.
Tom Hall Livermoie, CO On Mar 21, 8:04 am, longopavlik <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks so much to so many people for responding about our hummingbird > questions. Several people suggested that it is a Black-Chinned and > one suggested a Calliope. We had ruled those out because Sibley's > pictures do not show the pronounced black stripe over the eye that's > visible on our bird. Is it possible that that doesn't matter? We are > neophytes and found reasons for rejecting every type in Sibley's and > some other books because of one characteristic or another that didn't > match. > BTW, we are Stephanie Longo and Tom Pavlik (some people mentioned that > we didn't provide our names in the posting....) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Join us at the 2009 Convention in Alamosa: http://cfo-link.org/convention/index.php You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.as/group/cobirds?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
