The northern population of the giant hummingbird (Patagona gigas) stays in the high Andes year-round while the southern population migrates from sea level...
A team of scientists from the United States and Denmark has found specialized pecking-related regions in the woodpecker forebrain that show characteristics...
A poorly known species of hummingbird called the Santa Marta sabrewing (Campylopterus phainopeplus) has been unexpectedly rediscovered in the highlands...
Avian olfaction is not just limited to vultures and a few other bird species, according to new research from the University of California, Davis, and Riverside.
Southern...
Scybalium fungiforme is a little-known fungus-like plant species of the family Balanophoraceae. It has bunches of tiny pale flowers that are surrounded...
A new species of hummingbird, called the blue-throated hillstar (Oreotrochilus cyanolaemus), has been discovered in the southwestern Andes of Ecuador by...
The Costa’s hummingbird (Calypte costae) is a small species of hummingbird endemic to the far west region of the United States and Mexico. During breeding...
A new hummingbird species, called the dry-forest sabrewing, has been discovered in the tropical forests of eastern Brazil.
A young male of the dry-forest...
According to new research published in the journal Current Biology, a key area of the hummingbird brain processes motion in a unique, unexpected way.
The...
Since the 1830s, ornithologists have assumed that hummingbirds drink by capillary action (wicking), the passive process of a fluid rising into a narrow...
According to a group of ornithologists led by Dr Christopher James Clark of the University of California, Riverside, the two subspecies of a hummingbird...
According to a new study carried out by ornithologists at the University of British Columbia, Canada, hummingbirds are surprisingly sensitive to movements...
Male hummingbirds use their beaks as deft, dagger-like weapons when fighting each other for territory, according to a study carried out by a group of scientists...
In a 12-year-long study of 284 of the world’s 338 known hummingbird species, an international team of ornithologists has mapped the 22-million-year-old...
A tiny bird fossil, named Eocypselus rowei, offers clues to the precursors of hummingbird and swift wings.
Specimen of Eocypselus rowei (Daniel T. Ksepka...
