Even without a Rufous Hummingbird, there's interesting birdlife on Peabody Street.

Taxonomists from the University of Colorado, Boulder, have just released a paper in *Nature Communications* asserting, with lots of data verifying their claim, that Hoary, Lesser, and Common Redpolls all belong to just one species.

The Rufous Hummingbird visiting Peabody Street since before Halloween disappeared late Saturday. Laura thinks she took advantage of a perfect window to skip town before the snowstorm.

Laura's been thinking about how little dogs and hummingbirds are alike.

What do hummingbirds and little dogs have in common? Laura also bids farewell to Lisa Johnson, who is leaving KUMD after 30 years.

Laura doesn't usually go shopping on Black Friday, but this year she drove up to Two Harbors to buy something not available anywhere else.

Since the 1970s, Laura has been keeping various lists of birds. Today she talks about the most unsavory list of all.

Yesterday the weather was frightful—frigid and windy—but the Rufous Hummingbird continued at Laura's feeders. (You may recognize the opening music from Laura's beloved TV program, *Pushing Daisies*. The bird sound featured at the very end is the very hummingbird featured in today's program.)

Without capturing Laura's vagrant hummingbird, how are birders sure it's a Rufous Hummingbird rather than the almost identical Allen's Hummingbird? (The linked blog post has lots of photos which listeners might be interested in.)

Laura doesn't usually talk about bird identification, but sometimes it's important to focus on who's who. UPDATE: The hummingbird was back this morning.