There are several explanations for why hummers behave in this manner! The biggest reasons hummingbirds engage in aerial combat are to secure breeding and feeding territory. A true in-flight fight of ...

Hummingbirds generally evoke thoughts of warm weather and summer. Mostly, that would be correct, but the times, they are a-changin’. Of the 16 hummingbird species that nest in the U.S., only one ...

Rare birds tend to create massive excitement among birders, even if the bird in question isn’t massive. Such is the case with a very rare (for Ohio) hummingbird that appeared in a Clintonville yard in ...

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 ...