Quynh Ton / 500px / Getty Images. Coquettes are some of the smallest species of hummingbird, and the rufous-crested coquette (Lophornis delattrei) measures only about 2.5 inches in length and ...

At least two dozen hummingbirds, not to mention hundreds of other birds, sport long tails to attract females. But don't these tails get in the way? By attaching long streamer tails to short-tailed ...

Wilson's bird-of-paradise has unusual curled tail feathers. Serhan Oksay / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA-3.0. A fancy tail doesn’t have to be exceptionally long — it can also be exceptionally ...

Costa Rica Hummingbirds You Should Know With their vibrant colors, hummingbirds seem as if they belong in the tropics—and they do. Fewer than 20 species of these little gems can be found found ...

Anna’s hummingbird is just 7 centimetres long and at the fastest point of its dive, it covers 385 times that in every second. For its size, it is the fastest flight of any bird, faster even than ...

Sword-billed hummingbird's long beak helps it stand out By Gary Clark , Nature Columnist Updated March 31, 2018 6:46 p.m. The sword-billed hummingbirds reside mostly in the wet montane forests of ...

He explains how the glacier lilies emergence is becoming more and more out of sync with the broad-tailed hummingbirds arrival after their long migration up from Mexico.

At least two dozen hummingbirds, not to mention hundreds of other birds, sport long tails to attract females. But don't these tails get in the way? By attaching long streamer tails to short-tailed ...