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Fred Bassett Fred Bassett is a certified master bird bander who has worked with birds for over twenty years. Fred bands all types of birds each April and October at the Fort Morgan, AL banding station on the gulf coast and travels each summer to study hummingbirds in western states. During the winter he documents western hummingbirds wintering in south Alabama and Florida, and the last fifteen winters he has captured more than 2,000 hummingbirds of ten different species in that area. Doreen Cubie Doreen Cubie, a master bird bander, lives in Awendaw, South Carolina, and has been studying wintering hummingbirds in the southeastern U.S. since 2005. In the summer of 2010, she also launched a multi-year research project in Canada to investigate Ruby-throated Hummingbirds in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, at the northern and western edge of their breeding range. When not banding birds, Doreen is a freelance journalist and writes for National Wildlife, Wilderness, and other national magazines. Her work can be seen at www.doreencubie.com. Fred Dietrich Fred Dietrich is from Tallahassee, FL and has helped Fred Bassett since 2001 when he first banded in Tallahassee. He has also helped trap hummingbirds for bander training in Elkins, WV since 2004. After retiring in 2008, Fred joined the Hummer/Bird Study Group banding crew and bands each Spring and Fall at their site in Ft Morgan, AL. Fred completed his hummingbird bander training and received his federal certification in the summer of 2009. In June 2010, Fred received word that a female rufous he banded in Tallahassee had been recaptured in Chenega Bay, AK, more than 3,500 miles away. This is the longest ever documented migration route of any hummingbird species |
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