Soldiering through nightly suspended animation, a (nearly) all-sugar diet, backwards flight and long migrations, the birds’ tiny physiques prove mighty. By Bob Holmes / Knowable Magazine Published Sep ...

Everyone loves to watch hummingbirds—tiny, brightly colored blurs that dart about, hovering at flowers and pugnaciously defending their ownership of a feeder. But to the scientists who study them, ...

Hummingbirds are unique among birds for numerous reasons, and that also includes their backward flying capability. Like ...

An Oregon State University landscape ecologist will talk about the importance of maintaining forest corridors for tropical hummingbirds and the plants they pollinate at the next Science Pub Corvallis.

Hummingbird bills -- their long, thin beaks -- look a little like drinking straws. But new research shows just how little water, or nectar, that comparison holds. Scientists have discovered that the ...

Hummingbird bills — their long, thin beaks — look a little like drinking straws. The frenetic speed at which they get nectar out of flowers and backyard feeders may give the impression that the bills ...

The white-necked jacobin (Florisuga mellivora) is a jewel-toned hummingbird found in the neotropical lowlands of South America and the Caribbean. It shimmers blue and green in the sunlight as it flits ...

Look for a violet-crowned hummingbird in Arizona and New Mexico. Learn what this bird looks like, what they sound like and ...

Baby hummingbird pondering life at Point Defiance. “I am one of the lightest birds in the sky, yet I am also one of the fastest. I am tiny, but I can fly a very long way. I am mostly made of air, like ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

The hummingbirds are on their way back to Rhode Island – though it will still be awhile until it's time to put out your feeders. The ruby-throated hummingbird is the only species that breeds in the ...

The hummingbirds are almost back to Massachusetts. The ruby-throated hummingbird is the only species that breeds in the Bay State. While they're tiny - they weigh less than a nickel – they make a huge ...