Everyone loves to watch hummingbirds — tiny, brightly colored blurs that dart about, hovering at flowers and pugnaciously defending their ownership of a feeder. But to the scientists who study them, ...

Here’s how the aerial acrobats are able to survive on a nearly all-sugar diet, fly higher than many helicopters can and migrate over the open ocean Bob Holmes, Knowable Magazine Everyone loves to ...

Several years ago a young hummingbird that had been blown out of its nest was brought in to the rescue center; as it grew, I wondered how it would learn the intricacies of hummingbird flight.

Quick Take Ruby-throated hummingbirds migrate about 2,000 miles annually from North America to the Yucatan Peninsula and back ...

Birds are all around us, and as such, we don't necessarily think about how incredible they are. These are creatures that descended from therapods, a group of two-legged dinosaurs to which the ...

Soldiering through nightly suspended animation, a (nearly) all-sugar diet, backwards flight and long migrations, the birds’ tiny physiques prove mighty. By Bob Holmes / Knowable Magazine Published Sep ...