s30986u@kaira.hut.fi (Martin Helin) (08/02/90)
chuq@Apple.COM writes: >Another long-term and invalid wive's tale. There have been a number of >studies (I've read a couple of reports on them in the last 18 months) show >it's complete bushwah. There are hummers that migrate and hummers that >don't. They'll leave when it's time to leave (especially in the frost belt, >where you have to worry about such things. Here in the Bay Area, where we >don't get hard frosts, it frankly doesn't matter if they decide to not >migrate, since they don't die off in the cold). Feed until they stop >coming. Do you know if this goes to other genera of birds also ? This "tale" is widely accepted (without any scientific support ?) here in Finland (regarding many finch species, for example). Martin Martin Helin Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Internet : mhe@otax.tky.hut.fi s30986u@kaira.hut.fi UUCP : uunet!kaira.hut.fi!s30986u