Mr. Cañas-Valle’s discovery, described in the journal Ornithology in November, may be the first documented example of ...

Powered by nectar and a metabolic marvel, migratory hummingbirds travel thousands of kilometres each year, breeding in places like British Columbia before making the journey as far away as Mexico ...

Lead researcher Shayne Halter said new research is an early step in better understanding how hummingbirds use their energy ...

Although well out of their typical range, Rufous, black-chinned, buff-bellied and other hummingbirds can be found in Mississippi during winter. But how can those tiny birds survive when ...

For birds the size of hummingbirds to survive 15-degree weather is likely nothing short of amazing to many people, but in Kilmicheal, where Elizabeth Cummins and her husband, Jimmy, have a wintering ...

The research, published in January in Proceedings of The Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, found that the Calliope and rufous hummingbirds require at least 180 milligrams of fat in the morning ...

1:29 Hummingbird returns to its rescuer each spring Powered by nectar and a metabolic marvel, migratory hummingbirds travel thousands of kilometres each year, breeding in places like British ...

A Rufous hummingbird feeds in a backyard at an Oak Park, Ill. residence on Jan. 5, 2012. The birds, which spend some of their time in British Columbia, were the focus of a new study looking into ...