Hummingbirds generally evoke thoughts of warm weather and summer. Mostly, that would be correct, but the times, they are a-changin’. Of the 16 hummingbird species that nest in the U.S., only one ...

You love watching these tiny jewel-toned wonders zip around your garden all season long. But as the number of daylight hours wanes, it’s likely you’ll see fewer hummingbirds in your back yard.

A flash of brilliant magenta and green, accompanied by the sound of furiously beating tiny wings, was my first hummingbird encounter in my backyard. And then it was over before I could even register ...

Hummingbirds are pretty amazing creatures. They're the smallest bird—most weigh less than a nickel—and they're also the only bird that can fly backward. In terms of speed, they can set some records: ...

When a western banded gecko wants to eat a defenseless cricket or worm, it just gulps it down. “Pretty boring,” says Malachi Whitford, an ecologist at Clovis Community College, in California. But if ...