Learn all you need to know about how hummingbirds survive the winter—including how far they travel, where they go, how long ...

Birds are all around us, and as such, we don't necessarily think about how incredible they are. These are creatures that descended from therapods, a group of two-legged dinosaurs to which the ...

For bird lovers, tracking the migration is part of the fun. Sites like Hummingbird Central provide interactive maps where people can log sightings and watch as hummingbirds move across the continent.

Everyone loves to watch hummingbirds—tiny, brightly colored blurs that dart about, hovering at flowers and pugnaciously defending their ownership of a feeder. But to the scientists who study them, ...