Bill shape affects how efficiently a hummingbird feeds and how it competes with other hummingbirds. Because of humans, they ...

Bird song is once again starting to fill the Washington air as temperatures creep up and migratory birds return to the Evergreen State. One type of hummingbird calls Washington state home year-round, ...

With their quick-moving wings flapping up to 200 times a second while sometimes buzzing around and feasting on colorful flowers, hummingbirds can easily brighten a day. In addition to beauty, ...

With a range from southern Mexico to British Columbia, black-chinned hummingbirds are commonly seen, yet often overlooked in ...

There’s no mistaking the dizzying display of a hummingbird’s wings as it zips around from flower to flower looking for nectar ...

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 perhaps our best-loved birds, but there’s a lot that people don’t know about them. What kinds of hummingbirds are these? Do they migrate? What does their courtship look like? Right ...

Hummingbirds are back in Pennsylvania after their annual southern vacation, so you should be seeing these small birds flitting around the yard by now. Gardeners like hummingbirds not only for their ...

Hummingbird migrations take place in spring and fall and those events are cause for excitement among many people. "They are the gateway drug to bird watching because they are incredibly charismatic," ...

Hummingbirds are a welcome visitor in just about any outdoor space. Whether you're attempting to attract more hummingbirds to your garden as a birdwatcher, looking to help out the local wildlife, or ...