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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract I studied two aspects of interspecific territoriality in a Costa Rican nectarivorous bird, the rufous-tailed hummingbird (Amazilia tzacatl).

Hummingbirds are easily the most fascinating of all birds, entertaining everyone with their high-speed aerial acrobatics, diminutive size and brilliant colors. You won’t find this amazing bird in ...

A rufous hummingbird showed up at our hummingbird feeders despite temperatures in the low teens and a snow-covered backyard under dense cloud cover. The plump male bird, with a deep-red throat and ...

EAGLE COUNTY — Very few animals are as continually aggressive as the rufous hummingbird (selasphorus rufus). When they stake out a feeding area of flowers or a feeder with nectar, they are in charge.

Rufous hummingbirds are back! These orange-colored, bossy hummingbirds migrate north through California in the spring to their nesting grounds in the Pacific Northwest up to Alaska. Lucky for us, they ...

A reader called us recently to report her delight at having a rufous and a broad-tailed hummingbird at her home in Magnolia. Kelly Hill first saw a female rufous hummer in her yard in early November, ...

How a rufous hummingbird found its way from the Pacific Northwest to a hummingbird feeder outside our kitchen window is mind-boggling. Yet there it was in late September, a juvenile male with a dollop ...

A Steamboat Springs resident for 52 years and a retired middle school science teacher, Winston Walker is among many hummingbird enthusiasts who are paying close attention to the flashy hummers at ...

Fall migration has already begun for ruby-throated hummingbirds and they're making their way South to warmer climates for the winter. At the fall migration's peak in Mississippi, people who feed them ...