Photos © 2004 Stacy Jon Peterson

Immature male Costa's Hummingbird -- Meridian, Ada County (Latilong 17) -- 14 October through 26+ November 2004 (still present) -- captured and banded 8 November 2004.

More photos and a detailed discussion of the identification of this bird can be found at this external link.

An 8 second (1.6 MB) video clip may be available here soon.

CURRENT STATUS: This may be the first state record of this species (pending acceptance by the IBRC; another older possible record from northern Idaho may be recirculated soon).