You’ll know it’s a male rufous hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus) if you see its back completely covered with coppery orange feathers. Males are reddish brown on the back, base of crown and most of the ...

As the tiny creature ricocheted around the netting, Bella Eskelin, 13, reached her hand inside the trap and delicately closed her fingers. For a moment, she and the hummingbird became still.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On what turned out to be the earliest date yet we’ve recorded in our yard for a southward-bound rufous hummingbird, June 24 th, we heard the familiar castanet-like twittering call and spotted the ...

Ruby-throated hummingbirds are typically the only species of hummingbirds found in eastern North America. (Photo by Megan Maher/Maine Audubon) Heading into October every year, I have one message to ...