Their small size and blazing metabolism mean they live life on a knife-edge, sometimes needing to shut down their bodies ...

With their bright colors and tiny but mighty personalities, it's a joy to have hummingbirds around. And the secret to ...

How can you track something that’s about four inches in size, weighs as much as a pair of nickels, and flies around at about ...

Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly both forwards and backwards, as well as hover in mid-air, showcasing their incredible agility. A hummingbird's wings beat approximately 70 times per ...

With all that said, if hummingbirds don't really hum, what vocal sounds do they make to communicate with each other? Read more: The 13 Most Breathtaking Places To Camp In The United States So ...

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

Fortunately, if the hummingbirds make your home theirs in the winter, you can help them to thrive and stay healthy, even when it's freezing outside. Since flowers are scarce during the winter, nectar ...

Females provide all care for young hummingbirds. They lay one to three eggs, incubate them for about two weeks, and, after hatching, feed their young for about three weeks. A female may have ...

They found it's very flexible, with intricate and delicate movements all designed to help lap up and drink the sweet liquid. The team collected high-speed video footage of individual hummingbirds ...

When photographer Anand Varma first pitched us a story about hummingbirds in 2011, he says we told him: “That’s boring. Every photo of a hummingbird that can be taken, has been taken.” ...