Banding Hummingbirds

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Neal Templin, A Hearty Band of Volunteers Makes Hummingbirds Count; Birders band tiny creatures nd changed the way science sees them. Wall Street Journal, Jan 23, 2014 (front page).
online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303465004579322692478908648
("Hummingbirds, it turns out, are pretty tough critters. A few winters ago, two were found to have survived a temperature of 4 degrees below zero in Lynchburg, Va. A Rufous hummingbird was captured one winter in Tallahassee, Fla., and trapped the next summer in Alaska. 'They have the ability to fly thousands of miles and come back to a house and know exactly where the feeder is supposed to be, says Mr [Bruce] Peterjohn[, who heads the federal laboratory in Laurel, Md]. 'For a bird with a brain the size of pea, that's pretty amazing.' If a hummingbird devotee is late in putting up a feeder one year, birds can make their displeasure known. 'Sometimes they come look in the window, and say, 'People, get your act together,"' Mr Peterjohn says")

Note:
(a) Houma, Louisiana
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houma,_Louisiana
(a city; named after the historic Native American tribe of Houma people)
(b) "Ms [Nancy] Newfield serves herself a generous slice of Carnival holiday king cake"

king cake
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_cake
(Mardi Gras / Carnival; section 1 History)
(c)
(i) Rufous hummingbird
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufous_hummingbird
(Selasphorus rufus)
(ii) Rufous Hummingbirds. Fish & Wildlife Service, US Department of the Interior, undated
www.fws.gov/pollinators/features/rufous.html
("While the Rufous Hummingbird gets its name from its distinctive color, it is by no means monochromatic;" a map showing its "summer (breeding) and wintering ranges" in the Americas)
(iii) rufous (adj; Latin rufus red — more at RED): "REDDISH"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rufous