Yes, I would have said Calliope Hummer, too. They remind me of cigars, with
their rounded backs and short, stubby bodies. Their wings, when folded in
rest, extend past their tails, they are so short.
Last May, I took a photo and caused a bit of an uproar for how early the bird
appeared in Huerfano County:
http://ruralchatter.blogspot.com/2008/05/during-last-couple-of-days-ive-logged.html
Another good trick, if you want to check out more photos, is to Google the bird
after clicking 'Images' at the upper left of the Google home page. I got over
60,000 images:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Calliope+Hummingbird&gbv=2
Beverly Jensen
La Veta, CO
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--- On Sat, 3/21/09, longopavlik <longopav...@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: longopavlik <longopav...@yahoo.com>
Subject: [cobirds] Monument Hummingbird Update
To: "Colorado Birds" <cobirds@googlegroups.com>
Date: Saturday, March 21, 2009, 8:04 AM
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....)
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