CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Oct. 16 -- The University of Virginia issued the following news release:
For more than a month, hummingbirds and other songbirds have been migrating through Virginia, stopping to feed along their way to Mexico and other Central American countries.
Avid birder David Carr, director of the University of Virginia's Blandy Experimental Farm, a research institute near Winchester, spoke with UVA Today about how the birds accomplish this impressive journey and what people can do to help them on their way.
Q. What migrations are we currently seeing cross through Virginia?
A. We are coming to the end of the first phase of the songbird migration period, which has been going on since late August or early September. These birds...