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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 ...

Because billions of birds migrate in North America, this asynchrony of needs and availability of resources could become a widespread problem Male broad-tailed hummingbirds (hereafter BTH), Selasphorus ...

Over at Strange Horizons, Kyri Freeman’s short story “Out of Sombra Canyon” takes two biologists to a remote canyon, where they’re tracking the rare Green Tailed Hummingbird. What they discover is ...

Eleven hummingbird species have been spotted in North Carolina, though the Ruby-throated hummingbird — the most prevalent species in the state by a landslide — is the one most of us will see this ...

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 ...

As I walked across the meadow I heard the familiar buzz of hummingbird wings. I stopped when a female hummingbird hovered two feet in front of my face, peering at me. More precisely, she was ...