Hummingbirds are some of the most beautiful and elegant creatures on earth, and inviting them into your yard is almost like ...

Watching a hummingbird at our backyard feeder is a sight that brings joy to many of us each year. There is something endearing about the feisty but fragile-looking birds, so small as to almost seem ...

A chance encounter in a Panama rainforest has uncovered a new defensive behavior in white-necked Jacobin hummingbird chicks. In March 2024, Michael Castaño of the Smithsonian Tropical Research ...

When Jay Falk and Scott Taylor first saw the white-necked Jacobin hummingbird chick in Panama’s dense rainforest, the bird biologists didn’t know what they were looking at. The day-old bird, smaller ...