North Carolina’s most common hummingbird — the Ruby-throated hummingbird — is slated to make an appearance in a few weeks, but if you spotted a hummingbird in the last few months, it may have been a ...

Male Ruby-throated Hummingbird (archilochus colubris) in flight with a yellow flower and a colorful background; A ruby-throated hummingbird flying into a petunia flower.

Tubular flowers also attract the ruby-throated hummingbird, and the species tends to prefer red or yellow ones, such as the cardinal flower, spotted jewelweed, bee-balms and trumpet creeper ...

Flying more than 20 miles as day with wings beating up to 80 times per second, ruby-throated hummingbirds are headed to our neighborhoods from breeding grounds across the eastern half of North ...

HUMMINGBIRDS. These days, the most obvious bird prepping for the journey south is the ruby-throated hummingbird — a jewel, a gem, a wee sparkling bird that shimmers iridescently in the sunlight. Since ...

Each year, flocks of ruby-throated hummingbirds travel from Mexico to the Gulf Coast. Here's how to make hummingbird nectar and tips for feeders in Louisiana.

Somehow, he had captured a ruby-throated hummingbird. I could see the tiny bird’s pulse beating frantically, and sure enough, it had a ruby-colored throat that twinkled like a jewel.

Hummingbird Central uses citizen science to track the annual migration of hummingbirds, using user-reported sightings to map their progress. As of March 11, ruby-throated hummingbirds have been ...

On average, a ruby-throated hummingbird weighs only 0.1 to 0.2 ounces, or less than a nickel, according to the American Bird Conservancy.Their wingspan is about 3.1 to 4.3 inches, and their bodies ...

Red is not the essential color for your hummingbird feeder. Research has shown that the birds have no innate preference for red. They see other colors just as well. A yellow or blue feeder would ...

When researchers found a hummingbird with shiny gold feathers on its throat in Peru, they thought it was a newly discovered species. Instead, the bird is a hybrid that resulted from two pink ...