I am not a birder, but my birding buddy Pat is , so they get reported.
Several years back there was a Grad student from Uof Calif here in Central OK. Her research was centered around those hybrids that we reported. She collected data ( feather, blood among other details and good photos) from around 50 hummers in The Wichita Mts ( hybrids there too), around Chickasha as well as Mitch Park here in Edmond. There are several published studies on the subject and the BCHUis moving farther east and though usually separate at times do hybridize with RTHU. Here in Mitch Park they usually do not overlap their territory or breed , but at times they do. We try to get good photos of the hybrids when we see them. The obvious thing we see is what looks like a Rubythroated with slightly darker gorget and some violet in the lower margin.
Hal Yocum
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> On Mar 7, 2026, at 7:53 PM, Jerry Davis <jwdavis...> wrote:
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> be reported on the map data but to eBird that documents such movements.
> If you are not a user of eBird have someone else report these sightings.
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> Jerry
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> On 2026-03-07 7:10 pm, drhal2 Yocum wrote:
> > I noticed that the maps don’t reflect the expanding range of the
> > Black chinned hummer.
> > We noticed them here in Edmond ( Mitch Park about 8-10 years ago. They
> > are regulars now . In fact we have noted a few hybridizing with the
> > Ruby throated.
> > Hal Yocum, Edmond
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> >> On Mar 7, 2026, at 6:44 PM, anne davis <aiwdavis73...>
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> >> Awesome, Jerry, we always have Black-chinned and Ruby-throated
> >> Hummingbirds. Two feeders just far enough apart that they can manage
> >> to feed without too much territorial "fighting. " anne On Sat, Mar
> >> 7, 2026 at 1: 40 PM Jerry Davis <jwdavis@ cablelynx. com>
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> >> Hummingbirds. Two feeders just far enough apart that they can manage
> >> to feed without too much territorial "fighting."
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> >> Thanks Anne. I am not sure about your hummingbirds, but if I do not
> >> have the feeders out and in place when they arrive, they will hover
> >> at the window to get my attention that I have not done my job. A few
> >> years ago when I was visiting friends
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> >> I am not sure about your hummingbirds, but if I do not have the
> >> feeders out and in place when they arrive, they will hover at the
> >> window to get my attention that I have not done my job. A few years
> >> ago when I was visiting friends in Sedona Arizona I was looking out
> >> their window and a Black-chinned hummingbird was hovering at a fork
> >> in the Juniper tree in their backyard. When I asked them about it,
> >> they said that is where we hung the hummingbird feeder last year and
> >> have not got it out yet.
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> >> Remember whether it is Hummingbirds, Purple Martins, Chimney Swifts,
> >> or other birds they have an address and return. They can migrate
> >> thousands of miles and return to the same location. When Dr Bednarz
> >> from Arkansas State University was studying Thrushes in Idaho,
> >> banded birds that had migrate 1,000 miles returned to the same spot
> >> each year. When I was watching Dawn and Ross Carrie in Texas band
> >> birds a White-eyed Vireo was caught in the mist net just 6 feet from
> >> where it was caught and banded the year before.
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> >> Remember that birds have an address and if their habitat has changed
> >> and is no longer there, their survival and success in seeking other
> >> unoccupied habitat is reduced and this reduces their chance for
> >> survival.
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> >> Jerry Wayne Davis
> >> Hot Springs.
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> >> From: anne davis
> >> Sent: Saturday, March 7, 2026 12:33 PM
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> >> Subject: Re: [OKBIRDS] Hummingbird Central - Hummingbird Migration
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> >> Many thanks for the Hummingbird info, Jerry. Looking forward to
> >> their arrival and warmer temps! anne Norman OK On Mar 7, 2026, at
> >> 11: 36 AM, jwdavis@ cablelynx. com wrote: This migration
> >> map is one you can follow to provide insight when the Ruby-throated
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> >> Many thanks for the Hummingbird info, Jerry. Looking forward to
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> >> This migration map is one you can follow to provide insight when the
> >> Ruby-throated Hummingbirds and others might arrive. There are other
> >> sites. My hummingbirds usually arrive in Hot Springs on the 3rd week
> >> in March. They are already in Texas,
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> >> Ruby-throated Hummingbirds and others might arrive. There are other
> >> sites. My hummingbirds usually arrive in Hot Springs on the 3rd week
> >> in March. They are already in Texas, Mississippi, and Florida now.
> >> Be thinking about getting your feeders clean and ready.
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> >> 2026 hummingbird spring migration map, 2026 hummingbird sightings,
> >> hummingbird tracker, migration patterns, migration times [1]
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> >> Jerry Wayne Davis
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