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Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center |
Anna's and Costa's Hummingbird Field Research, January 17 - 20, 2008 |
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| After a dry 2007 field season centered in Anza Borrego in which Costa's Hummingbirds were hard to find, Dr. Anne Houtman and her research lab choose the University of California's Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center as a new focal point to explore hummingbird locations in Southern California. Here you see Dr. Houtman and part of her research lab team shortly after arriving at Deep Canyon, happy to see an abundant and thriving Costa's population as evidenced by over a dozen individuals at the two feeders there. From left to right, Uyen Tran, Anne Houtman, Tanya Samra, Sarah English, and Jaimie Grimes. Present, but not pictured: Cory Castro, Krista Brown, and Bethany WIlliams. For more images of the Deep Canyon Research Center and environs, click here. |
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| A male Costa's hummingbird at one of the Deep Canyon feeders. While Costa's were plentiful, Anna's hummingbirds were only found outside the reserve, in the town of Desert Springs, and at higher elevations in the mountains surrounding Deep Canyon. For more images of the hummingbirds at Deep Canyon, click here. |
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| Here Bethany Williams prepares to record a male Costa's hummingbird's song, using a parabolic microphone. For more pictures of the field team at work, click here. |
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| At the end of the first day's field work, the lab group sat down to discuss what they had discover, and to strategize for the upcoming day. Here, Bethany Williams is telling what she had found so far. From left to right, Bethany Williams, Cory Castro, Tanya Samra, Uyen Tran, Jaimie Grimes, Krista Brown, and in the foreground, Anne Houtman and Sarah English. For more pictures of the field team after the day's work is done, click here. |
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