Our local ruby-throated hummingbirds can beat their wings at a rate of more than 50 times per second! Try imitating this motion with your arms if you want to truly appreciate the difficulty.

Our local ruby-throated hummingbirds can beat their wings at a rate of more than 50 times per second! Try imitating this motion with your arms if you want to truly appreciate the difficulty.

Expect to see more and more tiny birds, with fast wings, long beaks, and bright red throat patches, starting next week and into the fall. You’ll find them at feeders, in backyards, and around flowers.

Ruby-throated hummingbirds are in the midst of their collective mid-spring migration north, meaning bird-watchers in Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania will soon be able to observe ...

Ruby-throated hummingbirds can beat their wings 50 times per second, which results in a humming sound as they fly past. They are able to fly backward as well as forward, and can also stop abruptly ...

Fun facts about the ruby-throated hummingbird The ruby-throated hummingbird flaps its wings 60 to 80 times per second, so it's easy to mistake the bird for a large bee.

Ruby-throated Hummingbird migration has begun and we’ve been seeing them regularly at the Gulf Coast Bird Observatory, visiting our feeders. If you enjoy putting out sugar water for these birds ...

Flying nonstop approximately 500 miles from Central America, Mexico and the United States, the hummingbird, weighing just 0.2 ounces, migrates twice a year visiting our backyards during spring and ...

A ruby-throated hummingbird visiting a hummingbird feeder. Brave monarch butterflies and hummingbirds' northern migration is well underway, much to the delight of Pennsylvanian birdwatchers and ...

The journey begins as early as February, with most ruby-throated hummingbirds reaching the southern United States by March or April. Some of these birds undertake a direct, non-stop flight across ...

Perennials are plants and flowers that grow and bloom over the spring and summer, die every autumn and winter and then grow ...