(Source: Georgia Department of Natural Resources) Keep Those Feeders Up: Winter Hummers Need Nectar FORSYTH, Ga. (10/16/2014) Keep your hummingbird feeders up as temperatures drop this fall and winter. That's the suggestion of Georgia Wildlife Resources Division biologists, who say that some visiting hummers make the state their winter home and benefit from the nourishment feeders provide. Although the ruby-throated hummingbird is the only breeding species of eastern North America, 12 hummingbird species have been recorded in Georgia over the last few decades. Every year in early fall, our resident ruby-throats migrate south to southern Mexico and Central America, often crossing the...
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