Sound recordings of courtship displays of Allen's (Selasphorus sasin), Rufous (S. rufus), and Hybrid (S. sasin x S. rufus) hummingbirds recorded between 2014 and 2021 in California, Oregon, and Alaska

These are sound recordings of courtship displays that are associated with the 386 individual Selasphorus hummingbirds that are the focus of analyses presented in Myers et al 2022. A subset of these birds were also used in Myers et al. (2019), and 159 of them have been deposited as specimens in the San Diego State University Museum of Biodiversity or the San Diego Natural History Museum.  Many recordings will include a verbal tag from CJC, BMM or DTR stating relevant recording conditions (e.g. date, locality). Each subfolder contains the recordings for 1 bird. Unfortunately, recordings for 15 birds were lost in a hard-drive crash.  Moreover, we recorded many additional birds which we were thereafter unable to catch. Some of those not-analyzed birds are also included here, even though they were not included in the associated studies, since we lacked a DNA sample, morphometrics, or feathers.

Methods
Sound recordings of courtship displays of wild hummingbirds including Allen's (Selasphorus sasin), Rufous (Selasphrous rufus) and their hybirds (Selasphorus sasin x Selasphorus rufus). Sound recordings have been placed in folders by recording year, then according to a field identifier (such as a field ID, or a locality). All files are the original .wav.  Generally the recordings are un-cropped, except in rare instances in which the recorder was accidentally left running for a long time.

The full dataset has been split into 13 different zipped folders: "2014", "2015", "hybrid localities 2016-2018" (6 parts), "Allen's localities 2016-2018", "Rufous localities 2016-2018", "2019 Brian" "2019 David and Chris" and "2021". 

Please refer to Myers et al 2022 for field recording methods.