On May 21, 2007, the banding team headed out to project supervisor Dr. Marc Bélisle’s home in Saint-Denis-de Brompton, in the Estrie region, to capture some hummingbirds that had been sighted in the preceding days.
By a stroke of luck, the second of the three hummingbirds captured there, an adult female, had a band that had been placed on her leg on September 21, 2005, by Robert and Kay Lookingbill, near Houston, Texas.
That’s a trip of 2700 km, the longest ever reported for a banded Ruby-throated hummingbird.
[Translation of post by Jacques Turgeon]
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