Winter Hummingbirds of Louisiana's Boletim

If you'd like to read the full report compiled by Dr. Erik Johnson, it's available on the LABIRD email group here.

So far 21 people have reported their hummingbird sightings (of 29 birds) to Dr. Erik Johnson. Reporting your sightings to eBird or iNaturalist are great, but reporting them to Erik are the only way to get your sightings into the long-running Louisiana Winter Hummingbird Database. See those reporting instructions at the end of this post. My hope is that this iNaturalist project can serve as an easily searchable database of images and observations of Louisiana's winter hummingbirds. eBird is a great way for winter hummingbird (and all bird) data to be collected and viewed overtime (day to day and year to year), so if at all possible use all three reporting methods to submit your winter hummingbird observations!

Broad-billed Hummingbird (Cynanthus latirostris)

1 report
1 parish
1 site

Buff-bellied Hummingbird (Amazilia yucatanensis)

1 reports
1 parishes
1 sites

Calliope Hummingbird (Selasphorus calliope)

1 reports
1 parishes
1 sites

Selasphorus Rufous/Allen's

26 reports
10 parishes
19 sites

--Identified Rufous Hummingbirds (Selasphorus rufus)

18 reports
10 parishes
15 sites

As always, please report your observations to Dr. Erik Johnson (Erik.Johnson AT audubon.org) with the following information:

• Your name
• Your city/town
• First observed (FO) date (or, if discovered while banding or marking other birds, the date it was observed)
• Species - please send photos, if available, for confirmation
• Age (Adult, immature, unknown)
• Sex (Male, female, unknown)

• Whether banded, when and by whom
  If additional information is learned through further observation or banding, please report those updates and I'll make the changes. Also, please report the last observed (LO) date, if possible, when the bird leaves. This you can do more easily when the hummer has been banded and marked.
  Observations of Ruby-throated Hummingbirds are requested if you see the bird after November 15.