With just a turn of the head, a hummingbird explodes in iridescent radiance. A hummingbird gorget (the patch of colorful feathers covering its throat) instantly blazes in shades that span the color ...

Male hummingbirds court females with showy acrobatic dives and loud songs created by their tail feathers. MALE HUMMINGBIRDS HAVE a courtship ritual that makes them all a-flutter, according to new ...

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Scientists thought a gold-throated hummingbird was a new species. DNA revealed that it's a hybrid of two different species, each with pink throats. The discovery sheds light on how birds produce ...

“I feel there is no way to avoid thinking of color when you think of hummingbirds”, said Gabriela Venable, who is the lead author of the newly published study of hummingbird color (ref). “We give them ...

Birds are typically more active in the spring and summer months due to breeding and nesting habits. With the influx of bird activity, it's important to know how to act in certain situations, like ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich have created a material traversed by a network of channels the size of micrometres in the same way as the microstructure of a bird's feather. To do so they have developed a ...