The bee hummingbird of Cuba is the world’s smallest bird, measuring just 5.5 cm and weighing under 2 grams, with remarkable ...

Regarding Gordon Baird’s Dec. 7 column, "Say it ain’t so, Part II," which touched on the recent destruction along the road to Wingaersheek Beach: ...

Happy New Year. As we embark on 2026, here’s a brief guide to the natural year in Georgia: ...

Pesticides are the nerve center threat driving hummingbirds away, thinning their insect prey and contaminating nectar. This matters because insects form the protein-rich diet hummingbirds need, so ...

MCFARLAND, MI- Anne (Cid) Christine Ley Pierce from McFarland, MI, passed at U.P. Health Systems- Marquette on Christmas evening at 9:40pm. Cid was born to Gloria Gast and Robert Nichols in Detroit, ...

Arguably our coolest woodpecker, the yellow-bellied sapsucker has provided plenty of fodder for insults and jokes, ...

Hummingbirds are fighters. While their needle-like bills help the tiny birds slurp up nectar inside flowers, the appendages serve a dual purpose: to joust with others over food and mates. Now, a new ...

The sharp, elongated bills of green hermit hummingbirds aren’t just fine-tuned for feeding; they also allow males to joust like knights over mates The iridescent green hermit hummingbird is known for ...

Partners Barend Van den Brande and Firat Ileri at low-profile London fund Hummingbird both won spots on the Midas List Europe for tearing up the venture rulebook and backing “outlier” founders.

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 ...

Heading south for the winter can be difficult and dangerous, especially when you’re tiny. Sometimes, hitching a ride is the safest way to go. A wayward Costa's hummingbird that was saved from frigid ...

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 ...