Summary

  • Status in VT: Increased by 2% (166 to 169 blocks). Greatest increase in Vermont Valley.
  • Data from other research: No additional data for VT.
  • Conservation status: State rank S5B.
  • Other atlases: NY: 21%; PA: 11%; ON: 20%.
  • VT’s role in North American range: VT is within the core of the range.
  • Causes of change since first Atlas: Unknown.
  • Management/Monitoring recommendations:Purchase coffee discerningly; on wintering grounds, shade-grown coffee plantations support higher numbers of Ruby-throated Hummingbirds compared to sun coffee plantations.

Population Trends

Ruby-throated Hummingbird graph

First Vermont Breeding Bird Atlas (1976-1981)

Species Account

Second Vermont Breeding Bird Atlas (2003 – 2007)

Ruby-throated Hummingbird Map 1Ruby-throated Hummingbird Table 1Ruby-throated Hummingbird Table 2

Change in Distribution

mapkeyRuby-throated Hummingbird Map 2Ruby-throated Hummingbird Table 3

Links

Vermont eBird

Encyclopedia of Life

All About Birds