How the Hummingbird Roundup Began
In 2003 Stacy Jon Peterson contacted ranch owners Kent and Francine Rudeen after hearing that their home was a hummingbird haven.
Stacy's first trip yielded 123 birds.
We now band as many as 500 new birds and recapture up to 200 returning birds each year.
The story continues...
Since that first foray to the Rudeen Ranch, the hummingbird banding team have returned each spring to research hummingbirds in the high desert mountains of southeast Idaho.
The research conducted at this site and others has produced insights into hummingbird lifespan, reproduction rates, survival, distribution, hybridization, and migration.
Our long-term dataset is providing information useful in the conservation of these wonderous birds!
