Hummingbirds are perhaps our best-loved birds, but there’s a lot that people don’t know about them. What kinds of ...

Now they can fit in a large pocket and are as essential to hummingbird biologists as binoculars are. The sheer magnitude of information captured by these cameras can be hard to fathom. To put ...

Tiny mites seem capable of relying on the power of static cling to hop into hummingbird nostrils and move between flowers. By Douglas Main Flower mites spend their lives slurping nectar and ...

“Hummingbirds have evolved with native plants, which are best adapted to local growing seasons, climate, and soil,” writes the U.S. Forest Service. “They prefer large, tubular flowers that ...

Hummingbirds are extremely small but remarkably tough. Some species make migrations of more than 9,000 km (about 5,590 miles) a year. Their journeys are largely fueled by nectar, which is sipped ...