HUMMINGBIRD BANDING

Only about 150 people in the United States and Canada are permitted by their governments to capture and band wild hummingbirds. Nonetheless, hummingbird banding is a very important tool in our attempts to learn all we can about hummingbird natural history. For information about the bird banding process in general, as well as some things we have learned about hummingbirds because of banding, start with the first entry in the list below.

• Who Bands Birds and Why
  
• Hummingbird Bands
  
• Capturing Hummingbirds
  
• How Hummingbirds are Banded
  
• Ageing & Sexing Hummingbirds
  
• Measuring Hummingbirds
  
• Color-marking Hummingbirds
  
• Hummingbird Banding Results
  -- Migration
  -- Site Fidelity & Longevity
  -- Population Trends
• Other Hummingbird Banders
  

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