Shimmering blue and green hummingbird flying through the air - David Northcott/Getty Images If you want to add a delightfully adorable element to your garden that also benefits hummingbirds, we've got ...

A bird the size of a car key and weighing little more than a pingpong ball has returned to the Inland Northwest after migrating some 2,500 miles from its overwintering site in Mexico. Flitting about ...

Hummingbird migrations take place in spring and fall and those events are cause for excitement among many people. "They are the gateway drug to bird watching because they are incredibly charismatic," ...

When I lived in California I always worried about hummingbird identification — there were at least four different species and they were all so little, moved so fast, and the females were ...

When researchers found a hummingbird with glittering gold feathers, they initially thought a new species had been discovered, but what they actually found was far more unusual. The bird — found in ...

The fall ruby-throated hummingbird migration is in full swing and you can celebrate the tiny birds in a big way at the Hummingbird Migration and Nature Festival at the Pascagoula River Audubon Center.

SEATTLE — Lobelias aren't just for hanging baskets anymore! Perennial species come in a wide variety of spectacular colors and sizes and hummingbirds go ga-ga over them. In addition, they're ...

The botanical easy-button has been pressed for this one. This is one of the most easily recognized of all American wildflowers. Whether you know it or not, you’ll surely be seeing red. Cardinal flower ...

Hummingbirds are extreme flying machines. The tiny, superbly athletic birds can stay steady even in 20-mile-per-hour wind and can make abrupt dives by beating their wings between 70 and 200 times per ...

Going strictly by the numbers, the hummingbird festival held Saturday on the grounds of the Lewis & Clark Interpretative Center was a roaring success. Vernon Kleen, a retired avian ecologist, and a ...