Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...

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 ...

A Mississippi man kept a hummingbird feeder clean and filled well after native ruby-throated hummingbirds migrated South for the winter. He recently got a pleasant surprise when a another species of ...

Mention hummingbirds in Mississippi and ruby-throated hummingbirds will most likely be the species that comes to mind. They are the only hummingbird species that breeds in eastern North America and ...

What is it about the hummingbird that captures our imagination? The smallest of all bird species, hummingbirds are just a few inches in length and can weigh as little as a quarter teaspoon of sugar, ...

No bigger than a human thumb, the Volcano hummingbird exists only in the Talamanca Mountains. But their appetite is anything but small, as they must replenish 12,000 calories a day from the tiny ...

The fall hummingbird migration is a wonderful time for those who enjoy watching and feeding the little birds as hundreds of thousands of them pass through the state, but all good things come to an end ...

Not all those who wander are lost ... -- "The Riddle of the Strider," "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" -- J.R.R. Tolkien By the end of October to early November, most hummingbirds ...

The temperature the morning I wrote this column was 30 degrees and the three hummingbird feeders I still have out were partially frozen. To most people, it seems strange to expect to see a hummingbird ...

As an especially devoted caretaker of hummingbirds who makes gallons of sugar water each summer to feed the numerous hummingbirds that visit her home in south Pulaski County, Alyson Hoge follows ...