When researchers found a hummingbird with shiny gold feathers on its throat in Peru's Cordillera Azul National Park, they thought it was a newly discovered species. The park, part of an outer ridge of ...

What Does a Ruby-Throated Hummingbird Look Like? The male ruby-throated hummingbird steals the show with a green body and ruby red throat that glistens like jewels in the sunlight. Its vibrant green ...

What Does a Violet-Crowned Hummingbird Look Like? Both male and female violet-crowned hummingbirds measure about 4 inches with snowy white underparts. No other U.S. hummingbird shares the starkly ...

The white-necked jacobin (Florisuga mellivora) is a jewel-toned hummingbird found in the neotropical lowlands of South America and the Caribbean. It shimmers blue and green in the sunlight as it flits ...

Bill shape affects how efficiently a hummingbird feeds and how it competes with other hummingbirds. Because of humans, they ...

Thousands of beautiful birds will flock to South Carolina this spring after wintering in Mexico and Central America. Among these birds is the ruby-throated hummingbird, the most predominant species in ...

The sharp, elongated bills of green hermit hummingbirds aren’t just fine-tuned for feeding; they also allow males to joust ...

Hummingbirds are so beautiful. People who get to see them regularly are so lucky: I've tried to put out feeders and everything! They just must not be very common where I am, or maybe they hate me.

As the days get shorter and temperatures change, the hummingbirds you enjoy seeing now will head further south. Now, while it may seem like fall at the moment in Tennessee, we aren't quite there yet.

A white-necked jacobin hummingbird chick surprises scientists, scaring away wasps by mimicking a poisonous caterpillar.