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niyad
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(7,794 posts)ihaveaquestion
(3,200 posts)I'm pretty sure Oregon isn't considered "tropical" and we have Anna's Hummingbird living here year round. I know cause I feed em.
https://audubonportland.org/go-outside/annas-hummingbird/
RainCaster
(11,643 posts)We have the Anna's year round in WA, too. However, we still have Anna's & Rufous that migrate through each year between Mexico and Alaska.
Donkees
(32,437 posts)Their journey north appears to have begun with the appearance, and then northward establishment, of another species: the blue gum eucalyptus tree from Australia. First introduced to southern California in the 1870s for shade, lumber, and railroad ties, and later used for lumber and orange-grove windbreaks, the tree is now naturalized in the coastal areas of southern California and the San Francisco Bay region. Areas of the state that were once treeless plains are now savannahs or long-abandoned plantations of blue gum.
The trees nectar-rich flowers bloom in the winter. Annas Hummingbird is one of only two native wildlife species that appear to find value in the tree. The Monarch butterfly, which uses it as a winter roost, is the other. Taking advantage of a developing urban horticulture in the Los Angeles Basin, Annas found it could now live year-round in the lowlands of southern California and later move north to the Bay area as blue gum groves there matured.
In their original southern California habitat, Annas Hummingbirds rely on chaparral and gooseberry, both with long growing seasons, but they readily forage on exotics provided by local nurseries. The birds have simply shifted north to capitalize on the profusion of urban gardens in the Pacific Northwest. The Seattle areas locally large populations of eastern gray squirrels and American Crows have similarly adapted to the regional shift from conifer forest to the combined native and exotic deciduous trees.
https://www.birdwatchingdaily.com/news/species-profiles/annas-hummingbird-our-winter-hummingbird/
Ligyron
(7,906 posts)Maybe it refers only to South American species?
cab67
(3,240 posts)plenty of hummingbirds at higher altitudes in South America. Maybe in tropical "regions," but far from tropical settings.
Flying jewels!!!
panader0
(25,816 posts)some which exist only there. Many year back I was the general contractor on the Audubon Society
Research Ranch Headquarters in nearby Elgin, Az.
https://www.audubon.org/important-bird-areas/huachuca-mountains-coronado-national-forest
Donkees
(32,437 posts)or visitors.
''The Berylline Hummingbird first appeared in the U.S. in 1964. Since then it has become almost a regular visitor, with one or two found almost every summer in the mountains of southeastern Arizona.''
https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/berylline-hummingbird
White-eared Hummingbird: Abundant at times in the high mountain forests of Mexico, this little jewel is an uncommon visitor to the southwestern United States. In southern Arizona canyons where hummingbird feeders are maintained, lone White-eareds sometimes show up and remain for weeks at a time. Although the species has been known as a summer visitor to Arizona at least since the 1890s, there have been few proven records of its actually having nested there.
https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/white-eared-hummingbird