Adapted from Terry Masear’s book “Fastest Things on Wings,” “Every Little Thing” is part nature documentary and part ...
A baby hummingbird might have a special way of warding off predators, which threaten tropical hummingbird species in infancy. Baby White-necked jacobins (Florisuga mellivora) in Panama seem to ...
But high-speed cameras show us what makes these birds perfect flying machines. A captive Anna’s hummingbird feeds while hovering before an optical illusion in a reenactment of an experiment that ...
And photography can even "slow down" events that ... a drop of milk splashing into a glass, and a hummingbird flapping its wings. These discoveries illustrate a fundamental pattern: technological ...
Hummingbirdcentral.com, a website created by "backyard birding enthusiasts," has shared an interactive map of hummingbird sightings nationwide. The site says they usually track the birds migration ...
Trying to follow a hummingbird's frenzied path might give you whiplash, but starting in mid-March, Louisiana residents will have ample opportunity to spot the tiny, long-beaked birds as they make ...