Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Oak Park's Mystery Hummingbird Is Identified

Bird Feeder

The verdict is in on the Oak Park Hummingbird mystery:

Then I looked at the mitochondrial sequence, the gene nd2. The results weren't immediately clear to me, so I ran a couple of quick analyses; then I knew. It's 100% Rufous Hummingbird, Selasphorus rufus.

Oak Park's Mystery Hummingbird Identified

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