A hummingbird hovers near an ocotillo flower in the Sonoran Desert near Tucson, Arizona, in early March. Credit: Roberto (Bear) Guerra Note: This story is intended to be listened to. Text associated ...

Lawnmowers droning, cicadas buzzing, the slightly skewed tune of ice cream trucks — some sounds are the songs of summer. But of all the noises that are part of the season, there’s one sound that sends ...

To our eyes, they often are a blur. But high-speed cameras show us what makes these birds perfect flying machines. A captive Anna’s hummingbird feeds while hovering before an optical illusion in a ...

Summit County is home to a single nesting hummingbird species — the broad-tailed — and by now, they have returned from their winter range in the mountains of Mexico to begin breeding. Sugar-water ...