The broad-tailed hummingbird was feeding noisily at the feeder when a bolt of copper shot from the sky right toward it. Flashes of red, green and orange filled the air as the two miniature-flying ...

You’ll know it’s a male rufous hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus) if you see its back completely covered with coppery orange feathers. Males are reddish brown on the back, base of crown and most of the ...

A Steamboat Springs resident for 52 years and a retired middle school science teacher, Winston Walker is among many hummingbird enthusiasts who are paying close attention to the flashy hummers at ...

A common species of western mountains, where the male’s diagnostic, cricketlike wing trill is a characteristic sound. Like many “western” hummingbirds, the broad-tailed is increasingly found in late ...

I have never thought that it might be nice to be a hummingbird before now. But lately I find myself watching them mingle, fly away, mingle again, circle back later for another drink and chitchat with ...

The world’s tiniest bird is heading back to Texas for the spring. Nine species of hummingbirds are common in Texas, and another six have made appearances in the state, according to Texas Parks and ...

If you want to start a spirited but friendly argument between birders, just ask a group to identify a rufous or an Allen’s hummingbird. You might as well send out for food, because the debate could ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract I studied two aspects of interspecific territoriality in a Costa Rican nectarivorous bird, the rufous-tailed hummingbird (Amazilia tzacatl).