Bill shape affects how efficiently a hummingbird feeds and how it competes with other hummingbirds. Because of humans, they ...

The Bay Area is a permanent or temporary home for 250 different species of resident and migratory birds. Noise can affect ...

Emily Kwong and Berly McCoy of NPR's Short Wave talk about why swearing might improve physical performance, how birds' bills changed during the pandemic and why scientists are sampling whale breath.

A white-necked jacobin hummingbird chick surprises scientists, scaring away wasps by mimicking a poisonous caterpillar.

Common birds—those with relatively large, widespread populations—are facing some of the steepest downturns. The data ...

In Lake County, the Redbud Audubon Society will host CBC on December 20. Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks will also ...

The first step for novices, Tan says, is simply to get outside and look around. You can start by taking note of the birds you encounter in your daily life, whether you reside in a city, suburb, or ...

Fall is nearly here in Michigan and hummingbirds are already making their trek southward for winter. A digital map from Hummingbird Central offers a chance to track hummingbird sightings across ...

A Mississippi woman has been getting daily visits from a rare, nearly all-white hummingbird. White hummingbirds can be albino, leucistic, or pied, with leucistic being the most likely type for this ...

Hummingbirds are among the smallest birds, and they are known for being beautiful, petite, and fast. After all, they can beat their wings up to 80 times a second! Like many creatures in the animal ...

Gardeners love growing multi-purpose plants, and it's not every day you find tropical fragrance, blooms that charm wildlife, and edible features wrapped up in one package. That's why pineapple sage ...