Chart 6:
FOREIGN RE-TRAP of a
RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD

 

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CHART 6: A recently-fledged (Hatch-year) male Ruby- throated Hummingbird was retrapped by bander Bob Sargent near Atlanta, Georgia USA 10 days after it was banded at Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History near York, South Carolina USA in 1991.

This was the first Ruby-throated Hummingbird ever recaptured and released more than 10 miles away from its original banding site.

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