Status: Rare fall migrant; very rarely winters and one apparent spring migrant record. Records of "western" hummingbirds have exploded in the eastern US during the past decade; Maryland now was 35+ records of Rufous, Selasphorus (sp.), or some variant thereof. Interesting, the Maryland's first documented records were a Rufous mist-netted and collected at Ocean City on 12 Sep 1963 (MB 19:97, 103; AFN 18:22) and a spring bird at Lilypons, Frederick County, on 1 May 1971, both atypical of the now expected scattering of records in late-fall/early winter.
