Hummingbirds are one of the many spectacular birds that are very pleasing to the eye and they belong to the Trochilidae family of birds. We all have read about them in our school books as they are ...

“It shows that all of nature is in constant flux and changing on some scale. This one is a dramatic change. It’s the ...

Hummingbirds enter a state of semi-hibernation at night called torpor, and researchers studied them closely. The birds are able to reduce their body temperature to close to the ambient temperature of ...

This hummingbird hanging upside down from a feeder under the deck stairs looked long gone from the world. When Nancy Fillmore saw the bird on her feeder in Croatan in Virginia Beach, she was surprised ...

To adapt to life in the Andes Mountains, some South American species go into exceptionally deep torpor to save energy. By Veronique Greenwood Hummingbirds live a life of extremes. The flitting ...

Every other Friday on Morning Edition NHPR’s Sam Evans-Brown tracks down answers to questions about the environment and outdoors for our listeners in a segment we call “Ask Sam." Debbie Beauvair from ...

Hummingbirds have hypnotized humans since our ancestors first reached the Americas centuries ago. These minuscule birds are a wonder of the natural world, packing several almost otherworldly powers ...

SEATTLE — With a cold snap underway in the Puget Sound region, some are wondering how to protect our flittering best friends – hummingbirds. Temperatures are forecasted to dip into the teens overnight ...