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 ...

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 ...

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 ...