Appreciate the beauty and brilliance of Mexican hummingbirds with ranges beyond the United States. Plus, learn which one ...
The hummingbird study that Tom Smith and Chris Schneider are conducting in Ecuador is part of a much larger research program spanning three continents. Evolutionary biologists are fanning out and ...
The Giant Hummingbird of western South America is not one species but two, according to an international group of researchers. The northern population stays in the high Andes year-round while the ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Here are nine hummingbird species that will amaze you with ...
Among the roughly 10,000 known bird species on Earth, only one family can sustain true backward flight. Hummingbirds achieve ...
When researchers found a hummingbird with shiny gold feathers on its throat in Peru's Cordillera Azul National Park, they thought it was a newly discovered species. When researchers found a ...