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However, the smallest intercontinental migrant, the Ruby-throated Hummingbird, migrates alone. The young birds begin their journey south for the first time after all the adult males and females have departed.
Like other birds that fly solo, they have to depend on a genetically inherited mental map to find the favorable winter grounds hundreds or thousand of miles away from Michigan.
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