What can beat its wings over 53 times per second, can hover, fly backward, forward and sideways, has pea-sized eggs, has a heart rate of over 1,200 beats per minute and can live for up to 10 years?

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Humans with an appreciation of beauty may have marveled for millennia at the artistry of a darting hummingbird, but scientists announced today that for the first time they can more ...

Juvenile ruby-throated hummingbirds are all out of their nests this time of summer, joined by migrants from the north. All are all feeding heavily to prepare for their long flights to Mexico and ...

What is it about the ruby-throated hummingbird that fascinates us? Its size? Its speed? Its graceful, yet fierce, in-flight antics? Or is knowing how fleeting their presence can be? It is migration ...

Anusha Shankar is a postdoctoral scientist at Cornell University. HIGH AMIDST THE CLOUDS: Hummingbirds are found in Ecuador’s cloud forests in the mid-elevation Andes (Top). Here, a fawn-breasted ...

North Texans are capturing amazing moments of a phenomenon happening across the area right now. Swarms of hummingbirds are migrating south ahead of the winter and North Texas happens to sit in the ...