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American tropics for the winter months and return in the spring? The Ovenbird, a warbler about which Robert Frost wrote one of his perceptive and beautiful poems, spends the non-breeding months in northern South America. The longest one of these small birds is known to have survived more than 14 hazardous migratory flights to and from the tropics is seven years.
The startlingly beautiful Indigo Bunting, so common in rural Virginia, winters on the Caribbean Islands and northern Mexico. Two banded males returned to their winter home in Jamaica every year for eight years; both birds had nested in North America. The oldest known record for the tiny, jewel-like Rubythroated Hummingbird is five years. My source comments that this is one individual, a male, in Oklahoma. The average would be much lower; this for a bird with 60 wingbeats a second and a metabolic rate that requires 200 percent of the bird’s body weight in food each day.
Big birds, hawks for instance, live a long time in zoos where they are fed and protected. A Red-tailed Hawk has several 14-16 year records in the wild. Most banded birds were shot and the bird’s band, when checked, showed the bird’s age from banding to shooting. In a zoo one of these big birds lived 29 years.
A Bald Eagle lived for 30 years at the National Zoo in Washington. A captive bird in New York state was still alive in 1968, age: 48
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