The seasonal migration of hummingbirds gave rise to the Mayan legend that hummingbirds are magical beings. They believed that ...

Hummingbird migration season gets underway in August, sending the birds flying to warm destinations thousands of miles away to last out the cold winter months and bringing bird-watchers new ...

A feeder isn't the only way to help keep hummingbirds healthy during winter. You can also help them by growing ...

After fall migration ends, many North American residents pull their hummingbird feeders in for the season. But when is the ...

But by stitching those snapshots together over multiple years, biologists can discern patterns in hummingbird breeding, feeding, and migration habits. At Mesa Verde, for example, some banded birds ...

Soldiering through nightly suspended animation, a (nearly) all-sugar diet, backwards flight and long migrations, the birds’ ...

The male ruby-throated hummingbird does indeed have a striking red throat, though the female of the species does not. You would have to look quickly to see either, however, as these speedy little ...

The other method is to place additional feeders out of the line of sight of the first feeder, such as in a side yard or on ...

Every photo of a hummingbird that can be taken, has been taken.” I wish we’d been more polite than that because, as you’ll see in this issue, such a response would make us not only rude but ...

“Properly maintained hummingbird feeders are an excellent way to attract and support hummingbirds during spring and fall migration and throughout the summer,” Witko says. Hummingbird swings ...