The broad-tailed hummingbird was feeding noisily at the feeder when a bolt of copper shot from the sky right toward it. Flashes of red, green and orange filled the air as the two miniature-flying ...

Iowa, along with much of the Eastern United States, gets the short end of the stick when it comes to hummingbird diversity. The ruby-throated hummingbird comprises Iowa's only regular and nesting ...

A Steamboat Springs resident for 52 years and a retired middle school science teacher, Winston Walker is among many hummingbird enthusiasts who are paying close attention to the flashy hummers at ...

There’s no mistaking the dizzying display of a hummingbird’s wings as it zips around from flower to flower looking for nectar. But often, that same frantic action is used to chase other hummingbirds.

They’re back. As I look out our kitchen window, there is a swarm of rufous hummingbirds in our garden area. They are perched in the trees, feeding on flowers and attempting to perch on one of our many ...

August is the peak of hummingbird season in Teller County. Our local breeder is the Broad-tailed, but starting in July a couple of others move in: the Rufous and Calliope. They are all greenish in ...

Fall migration has already begun for ruby-throated hummingbirds and they're making their way South to warmer climates for the winter. At the fall migration's peak in Mississippi, people who feed them ...

On what turned out to be the earliest date yet we’ve recorded in our yard for a southward-bound rufous hummingbird, June 24 th, we heard the familiar castanet-like twittering call and spotted the ...

I have never thought that it might be nice to be a hummingbird before now. But lately I find myself watching them mingle, fly away, mingle again, circle back later for another drink and chitchat with ...

Mention hummingbirds in Mississippi and ruby-throated hummingbirds will most likely be the species that comes to mind. They are the only hummingbird species that breeds in eastern North America and ...

It is a little past 6:30 in the morning on Whidbey Island, in Washington’s Puget Sound, and despite the earliness of the hour and wretchedness of the weather, Dan Harville is admiring the torch lilies ...

Gardening season is wrapping up, but you may still have questions. For answers, turn to Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University’s Extension Service. OSU ...