It’s impossible not to smile when a hummingbird lands on your finger. It’s magical. I was hanging a feeder filled with fresh nectar when an impatient Anna’s hummingbird decided that I’d make a good ...

As they zip around in search of nectar, hummingbirds have no trouble navigating dense foliage and other tight spaces. This feat is especially impressive for hummers, because unlike other birds, they ...

In flight, the hovering hummingbird is more like a insect than a bird. Most most birds only create lift when they flap downwards. But the hummingbird, by flipping its wing before it flaps upwards, can ...

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

Corrections and Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misspelled Anand Varma's name. Hummingbirds are perhaps some of the quickest animals on the planet, beating its wings 10-15 times a ...

Imagine you had a never-ending hunger that compelled you to eat more than your weight in sugar every day. And imagine you had to find that food in a near-continuous windstorm. Now you know how a ...

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I don’t know about you, but I still have visitors to my hummingbird feeder! One male and one female ruby throated hummingbirds continue to fight for dominance over the feeder, but I encourage both of ...

Hummingbirds are some of the most beautiful and elegant creatures on earth, and inviting them into your yard is almost like ...

Quick Take Ruby-throated hummingbirds migrate about 2,000 miles annually from North America to the Yucatan Peninsula and back ...

In March of 1982, during my college spring break, I flew to California to visit a friend. I had never been out west, and being interested in biology, I wanted to see the desert. Steve, who was very ...