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 ...

After a lo-o-o-ng, lonely migratory journey a male Rufous hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus) lands in the mountain meadows of the Wasatch Back just as vibrant green leaves and floral tubulars unfurl. He ...

On what turned out to be the earliest date yet we’ve recorded in our yard for a southward-bound rufous hummingbird, June 24 th, we heard the familiar castanet-like twittering call and spotted the ...