Known for being beautiful and fast, Hummingbirds are among the world’s smallest birds. The largest of these jewel-toned beauties weighs less than one ounce. Hummingbirds have the most rapid wing beats ...

I’ve been noticing more than one ruby-throated hummingbird at my feeder recently. Two, sometimes even three, sharing the feeder. None of these have the ruby-throat of an adult male. So, these are ...

Hummingbirds are fighters. While their needle-like bills help the tiny birds slurp up nectar inside flowers, the appendages ...

North Carolina’s most common hummingbird — the Ruby-throated hummingbird — is slated to make an appearance this month, but if you spotted a hummingbird in the last few months, it may have been a rare ...

Let’s get one thing out of the way: All hummingbirds fight. Most species fight for food, using their tiny bodies and sharp bills to force competitors away from flowers. But the green hermit ...

Her feistiness pegged her as a likely rufous hummingbird, even before I saw her cinnamon-tinged tail feathers. I’d been anticipating a few early migrants of her species since the beginning of July and ...