{"id":845,"date":"2009-12-31T16:19:17","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T00:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/?p=845"},"modified":"2009-12-31T16:19:17","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T00:19:17","slug":"rosy-the-rufous-hummingbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/rosy-the-rufous-hummingbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosy, the Rufous Hummingbird"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s very unusual for hummingbirds to hang around during winters in Oklahoma. Typically the Ruby-throated or Black-chinned Hummingbirds (the ones most frequently seen in the state) leave by late September.\u00a0 On occasion, a hummer will show up at feeders well past the time to migrate.\u00a0 And on these rare occasions, the hummer is sometimes a rarity.<\/p>\n

\"Rufuous<\/a>

Rufuous Hummingbird, female<\/p><\/div>\n

That’s the great good-fortune my friend Terri<\/a> has had this year. A Rufous Hummingbird showed up at her Edmond, Oklahoma home in October and has remained even through a record-setting blizzard.<\/p>\n

There is a hope that at some point, one of these Rufous Hummingbirds that over-winter in Oklahoma will turn out to be the rare Allen’s Hummingbird. The two species are very difficult to differentiate and it often requires capturing the bird.<\/p>\n

In hopes of either confirming the ID as a Rufous or documenting a state record Allen’s, Dr. Chris Butler<\/a> from the University of Central Oklahoma first attempted to capture and band Terri’s hummingbird in early October. The bird would not cooperate and a second — successful — attempt occurred December 23, 2009.\u00a0 Terri and Chris collaborated on the banding and Terri produced a wonderful video of the process<\/a>. (Terri has several excellent videos of the bird at the feeder<\/a> on YouTube)<\/p>\n

Dr. Butler initially described the bird while “in hand” as a hatch year male Allen’s Hummingbird. However, input from other banding experts and feedback from the Oklahoma Birds Records Committee<\/a> indicate the bird is a female Rufous.\u00a0 Terri had been calling the bird “Rusty” so the gender change called for a new moniker:\u00a0 Rosy.<\/p>\n

I enjoyed getting to photograph the hummingbird at Terri’s home on November 6th and hope to get more photos this winter.\u00a0 This week Terri spotted a second hummingbird — we’re all still hoping for that elusive state-record Allen’s!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s very unusual for hummingbirds to hang around during winters in Oklahoma. Typically the Ruby-throated or Black-chinned Hummingbirds (the ones most frequently seen in the state) leave by late September. On occasion, a hummer will show up at feeders well past the time to migrate. And on these rare occasions, the hummer is sometimes a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}