I wondered if the rufous hummingbird would show up to spend the winter in our yard, as it had for the past four years. The Western hummingbird always arrived in August. Maybe it was just late this ...

Plucky, beautiful and declining in numbers at about a 2% annual rate, the rufous hummingbird makes its long annual migration in different timing and route patterns based the birds' age and sex, new ...

A bright flash of neon orange at one of our feeders a couple weeks ago alerted me to the presence of one of my very favorite feathered creatures: a male rufous hummingbird, stopping here along its ...

The Rufous Hummingbird is magical. The male’s iridescent throat glows brighter than a shiny copper penny and like most hummingbirds, whizzes through the air curiously hovering right in front of humans ...

A Rufous hummingbird. Credit: Wendy Miller/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The Rufous hummingbird has a reputation as one of the continent’s most tenacious birds of its size. Weighing less than a nickel and ...

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 ...

Hummingbirds are some of the most captivating creatures to welcome into your garden. With their iridescent feathers, rapid wingbeats, and unique ability to hover as they feed, they bring a touch 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 ...

Our Exeter Township rufous hummingbird host reports that Lizzie left on Christmas Eve. “The week before she left I would see her constantly,” our host reports. “She would perch on a bush in front of ...

Plucky, beautiful and declining in numbers at about a 2% annual rate, the rufous hummingbird makes its long annual migration in different timing and route patterns based the birds' age and sex, new ...