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, ...

There’s no mistaking the dizzying display of a hummingbird’s wings as it zips around from flower to flower looking for nectar. But often, that same frantic action is used to chase other hummingbirds.

Soldiering through nightly suspended animation, a (nearly) all-sugar diet, backwards flight and long migrations, the birds’ tiny physiques prove mighty. By Bob Holmes / Knowable Magazine Published Sep ...

Hummingbird flight mechanics have been well studied but far less is known about how their sense of touch helps them sip nectar from a flower without bumping into it. Most of what scientists know about ...

Iridescent purple bow ties are the telltale signs of black-chinned hummingbirds. This species is a common backyard visitor in ...

Hummingbird bills -- their long, thin beaks -- look a little like drinking straws. But new research shows just how little water, or nectar, that comparison holds. Scientists have discovered that the ...

An Oregon State University landscape ecologist will talk about the importance of maintaining forest corridors for tropical hummingbirds and the plants they pollinate at the next Science Pub Corvallis.

The hummingbirds are on their way back to Rhode Island – though it will still be awhile until it's time to put out your feeders. The ruby-throated hummingbird is the only species that breeds in the ...