Imagine seeing a hummingbird for the first time. Hold it in your mind that you have passed your life on one of those less-fortunate continents like Europe or Asia, two old worlds equally devoid of ...

DEAR JOAN — I witnessed a very bizarre incident recently involving two hummingbirds, and I know you will be able to decipher this avian oddity. The two were furiously circling each other in the front ...

DEAR JOAN: I witnessed a very bizarre incident recently involving two hummingbirds, and I know you will be able to decipher this avian oddity. The two were furiously circling each other in the front ...

The last time I wrote about Anna’s hummingbirds, I wrote about their courtship displays. These birds are one of the earliest to begin nesting and males can now be seen performing their impossible ...

There are many reasons to be fascinated by hummingbirds. Maybe we're taken by their diminutive size; they are, after all, the smallest of birds. Maybe we're wowed by their flying speed of up to 60 ...

When Columbus arrived in the Americas thinking he’d found a new route to India, he marveled at another new discovery, too. He wrote in his diary of little flying gems, the ones that we call ...

Phenotypic characters with a complex physical basis may have a correspondingly complex evolutionary history. Males in the “bee” hummingbird clade court females with sound from tail-feathers, which ...

ROANOKE, Va. – The first Ruby-throated hummingbirds have been spotted in Southwest Virginia! Hummingbird migration is underway as these tiny travelers make their way across the country. Many of them ...

Known for being beautiful and fast, Hummingbirds are among the world’s smallest birds. The largest of these jewel-toned beauties weighs less than one ounce. Hummingbirds have the most rapid wing beats ...