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Records for COSTA'S HUMMINGBIRD (Calypte costae) in North America

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Credits: North America outline map provided by Andrew MacRae  
Permission for use granted on website (http://www.geo.ucalgary.ca/~macrae/maps/maps.html)
Breeding and non-breeding ranges are adapted from A Field Guide to Hummingbirds of North America,
Copyright 2001 by Sheri L. Williamson, published by Houghton Mifflin Co. Used by permission of the author.

RECORDS

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CANADA RARITY RECORDS

• ALBERTA
  1. 13 June - August 1988 -- Ponoka, (American Birds vol 42(5), 1988) - 1st provincial record
  2. early August 1998 -- "reported without details" (North American Birds vol 53(1), 1999) - 2nd provincial record
• BRITISH COLUMBIA
  1. 14-17 April 1972 -- Cadboro Bay, Saanich, (BirdInfo.com website) -- 1 male; first record for Canada.
  2. 27 December 1973 -- West Vancouver, (BirdInfo.com website) - 1 male; considered hypothetical by some authorities due to lack of documentation.
  3. 3 July 1984 -- Nanaimo, (BirdInfo.com website) - 1 male, photographed
  4. 13-14 April 1985 -- Gabriola Island, (BirdInfo.com website) - 1 male; considered hypothetical by some authorities due to lack of documentation.
  5. 17 May 1986 -- Pitt Meadows, (BirdInfo.com website) - 1 male, photographed
  6. 17-19 May 1987 -- Lillooet, (BirdInfo.com website) - 1 male, photographed, 4th provincial record (American Birds vol 41(3), 1987)
  7. 20 May 20 - 1 June 1987 -- Burnaby, (BirdInfo.com website) - 1 male, photographed
  8. 9-13 April 1999 -- Sooke, (Victoria RBA; BirdInfo.com website; North American Birds vol 53(3), 1999)
  9. 15-23 May 1999 -- Sardis, (Vancouver RBA; BirdInfo.com website; North American Birds vol 53(3), 1999)
  10. Early April 2000 -- Chilliwack, (Vancouver RBA; BirdInfo.com website)
  11. 25-29 April 2000 -- Brackendale, (Vancouver RBA; BirdInfo.com website) - 1 male

USA RARITY RECORDS
outside the "dotted lines" on the map above

• ALABAMA
  1. November 2005 - 17 February 2006 -- Montgomery, Montgomery County, (Fred Basset, pers. comm., 1/1/05) - second year male banded by Bassett
• ALASKA
  1. 23 July - 17 October 1989 - Anchorage, Anchorage Bourough, (American Birds vols 43(5), 1989; 44(1), 1990; 47(1), 1993) - imm male, photo in AB43(5), first state record
     
     • "Alaska's first Costa's Hummingbird, which had appeared at an Anchorage feeder in late July [1989]... was ceremoniously captured by U.S.F.W.S. personnell Oct. 17 and flown to Seattle, where it was released. It didn't matter that Seattle was only halfway to the species' normal fall/winter range in arid chaparral of Baja and the s.w. deserts. The scientific merit of such an endeavor is questionable, but this individual would have quickly succumbed (and the speciem not retrieved) with the late October subzero temperatures. The emotion that drives such "rescues" of extralimital birds must be tempered by the potential scientific gains from specimens or even from photos. In the past 10+ years at least three Anna's Hummingbirds, a Steller's Eider(!), and a Cattle Egret have been shipped south." -- Tobish, T.G., and M.E. Isleib, 1989. Alaska Region. Am Birds 44(1):143.
       
  2. 1994 -- Anchorage, (Birders Guide to Alaska, by George C. West, 2002)
  3. 16-26 October 1998 -- Anchorage, (North American Birds vol 53(1), 1999) - male, 4th regional record
  4. 15-22 October 1992 -- Juneau, ____ Bourough, (American Birds vol 47(1), 1993) - female
  5. 29 August - 20 October 2003 -- Kodiak, _____ Bourough, (North American Birds vol 58(1), 2004)
  6. 5 September-31 October 2003 -- Cordova , Valdez-Cordova Bourough, (North American Birds vol 58(1), 2004) - ad male, Alaska's 6th record, well photographed, hosted by Aaron Lang
  7. fall/winter 2003/2004 -- Cordova, Valdez-Cordova Bourough, (Aaron Lang, pers. comm, 11/12/06) - ad male, spent winter at feeder also frequented by Anna's Hummingbird. Could this be the same Costa's as from Lang's yard last year?
  8. 9 October 2005 -- Kenai, Kenai Peninsula Bourough, (alaskabirds listserv, 10/24/05) -- imm male photographed in greenhouse
  9. late August - November, 2006 -- Kodiak, ____ Borough, (alaskabirds listserv, 10/3/06) - fide Rich MacIntosh (pers. comm., 11/15/06) the host brought this bird into her house in mid November to save it from the weather. Photographed by MacIntosh in wild.
• ARIZONA (outside "dotted line" on map)
• COLORADO
  1. 4 August 2003 -- Pingree Park Campus, Col. St. Univ., Larimer County, (Tina Jones, COBIRDS, 8/17/03) -- imm male banded by Wiard; second state record
  2. 5 December 2004 - 17 January 2005 -- Clifton, Mesa County, (Colorado RBA on BirdWest listserv) - ad female
• IDAHO
  1. 14 October 2004 - 26 January 2005 -- Meridian, Ada County, (Trochilids.com) - imm male banded & photographed by S. Peterson, first state record
• KANSAS
  1. summer 1990 -- near Sharon Springs, Wallace County, (KBRC Report Summary '90-'01) - specimen, 1st state record; added to the KOS Checklist
  2. 5 November 1993 -- near Lawrence, Douglas County, (KBRC Report Summary '90-'01; American Birds vol 48(1), 1994) - photos, banded and rehabilitated by J. Hall; 2nd state record, returned to Tucson, Arizona and released.
• MINNESOTA
  1. November 2003 -- Delano, Wright County, (Don Mitchell, HUMNET, 11/25/03) - first year male confirmed by Mitchell. Bird held captive in host's house for extended period.
• MONTANA
  1. October 2001 -- near Corvallis, Ravalli County, (Montana Bird Distribution) - accepted by MT Bird Records Committee; 01-034
• NEBRASKA
  1. early October - 16+ November 2001 -- Lexington, Dawson County, (Nebraska RBA) -- male
• NEVADA
  1. 18-21 May 1993 -- Lovelock, Pershing County, (American Birds vol 47(3), 1993)
  2. 29-31 May 1998 -- Fallon, Churchill County, (Field Notes vol 52(3), 1998)
  3. 4 May 2000 -- Limerick Creek, ____ County, (North American Birds vol 54(3), 2000)
• NEW MEXICO
  1. May 1977 -- Guadalupe Canyon, ____ County, (American Birds vol 32(5), 1978) - first verified record
  2. 6-7 May 1978 -- Guadalupe Canyon, ____ County, (American Birds vol 32(5), 1978)
• OREGON (outside "dotted line" on map)
  1. summer - 17 November 1977 -- Portland, Multnomah County, (American Birds vol 32(2), 1978) - male, 3rd state record
  2. 20 May 1989 -- Cottonwood Creek, s. of Fields, Harney County, (American Birds vol 43(3), 1989)
  3. 8-13 December 1998 -- Portland, Multnomah County, (North American Birds vol 53(2), 1999)
  4. end of April 2000 -- Seaside, Clatsop County, (Tweeters listserv)
  5. 12 January 2002 -- Portland, Multnomah County, (Tweeters listserv) -- male
  6. 24 December 2004 - 3 January 2005 -- Portland, Multnomah County, (Tweeters listserv) -- male
• SOUTH DAKOTA
  1. 8-12+ September 2005 -- Nemo area, Lawrence County, (SD Birds/birdingonthe.net) -- imm male, photographed, first state record
• TEXAS
  1. 16-17 September 1992 -- El Paso, El Paso County, (American Birds vol 47(1), 1993) - 4th documented state record
  2. 21-24 January 1988 -- Kingsville, Kleberg County, (TBRC 1988 Report)
  3. 16-17 September 1992 -- El Paso, El Paso County, (TBRC 1993 Report)- imm male photographed & tape recorded
  4. 28 October - 12 December 1995 -- El Paso, El Paso County, (TBRC 1997 Report) - up to 7 individuals, which included two adult males, four immature males and a female. All previous state records were of single birds.
  5. 26 April 1997 -- Rio Grande Village, BBNP, Brewster County, (TBRC 1998 Report)
  6. 19 May 2000 -- Green Gulch, Big Bend NP, Brewster County, (TBRC 2003 Report) - male
  7. 1-30 September 2000 -- in the Christmas Mountains, Brewster County, (TBRC 2001 Report)
  8. 10-11 December 2000 -- Christmas Mountains, Brewster County, (TBRC 2002 Report)
  9. 10 June - 1 September 2001 -- seven miles NW of Fort Davis, Jeff Davis County, (TBRC 2002 Report) - male
  10. 17-21 December 2001 -- Matagorda, Matagorda County, (TBRC 2003 Report) - male
  11. 24 December 2001 - 21 January 2002 -- El Paso, El Paso County, (TBRC 2003 Report) - female
  12. 24 August 2003 -- El Paso, El Paso County, (TBRC 2004 Report) - female / imm
  13. 2-23 February 2004 -- Panther Jct, Big Bend National Park, Brewseter County, (TBRC 2004 Report) - ad male
  14. 19 February - 4 March 2006 -- Rockport, Aransas County, (TX-Hummer Listserv, 2/20/06) - ad male, banded by S. Beree
• UTAH (records outside Washington County)
• WASHINGTON
  2. 14 April 1989 -- Shelton, Mason County, (American Birds vol 43(3), 1989) - first state record, if accepted...
  3. early August - 3 October 1998 -- Frederickson, Pierce County, (North American Birds vol 53(1), 1999) - male; 1st state record
  4. 25 April - 17 May 2000 -- Richmond Beach, King County, (Don Norman, Tweeters listserv; North American Birds vol 54(3), 2000) -- male - 2nd state record
  5. 16-23 May 2002 -- Redmond, King County, (Tweeters listerv) -- male, photographed by M. Wile
  6. 6-13 Mar 2004 -- Vancouver, Clark County, (Tweeters listserv) -- female, photographed
  7. 2 May 2005 -- Lyle, Klickitat County, (Tweeters listserv) - male

Compiled by Stacy Jon Peterson (Eagle River, Alaska) from many sources, not the least of which were listserv reports and Bird Records Committee archives in North America.