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 ...

A Rufous hummingbird. Credit: Wendy Miller/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The Rufous hummingbird has a reputation as one of the continent’s most tenacious birds of its size. Weighing less than a nickel and ...

Two rufous hummingbirds hailing from breeding grounds in the Pacific Northwest have been gulping down sugar water from our hummingbird feeders since late August. I have no idea where they bred last ...

As September, ends the yellow flowers of wild goldenrods are joined by the lavender, blue, pink or white blossoms of asters. They, like so many other flowers that bloom now, are members of the ...

The Rufous Hummingbird is magical. The male’s iridescent throat glows brighter than a shiny copper penny and like most hummingbirds, whizzes through the air curiously hovering right in front of humans ...

I have never thought that it might be nice to be a hummingbird before now. But lately I find myself watching them mingle, fly away, mingle again, circle back later for another drink and chitchat with ...

A bright flash of neon orange at one of our feeders a couple weeks ago alerted me to the presence of one of my very favorite feathered creatures: a male rufous hummingbird, stopping here along its ...

The temperature the morning I wrote this column was 30 degrees and the three hummingbird feeders I still have out were partially frozen. To most people, it seems strange to expect to see a hummingbird ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eleven hummingbird species have been spotted in North Carolina, though the Ruby-throated hummingbird — the most prevalent species ...

Plucky, beautiful and declining in numbers at about a 2% annual rate, the rufous hummingbird makes its long annual migration in different timing and route patterns based the birds' age and sex, new ...

Our Exeter Township rufous hummingbird host reports that Lizzie left on Christmas Eve. “The week before she left I would see her constantly,” our host reports. “She would perch on a bush in front of ...