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Hummingbirds for Mother’s Day
Children’s author Mary Quattlebaum reviews Hummingbirds: Facts and Folklore from the Americas. Read more >
Magazine Readers Report Hummingbird Sightings
After Pat Neuhaus read in the December/January issue of National Wildlife that out-of-range-and-season sightings of hummingbirds are becoming increasingly common, he put out his sugar-water feeders. The next day, a hummingbird arrived in his South Carolina yard. “I hope to… Read more >
Bird of the Week: Rufous Hummingbird
About a week before Thanksgiving, fellow science writer Rick Borchelt spotted a “way out of season and way out of range” rufous hummingbird feasting at his backyard sugar-water feeder in College Park, Maryland. Since then, “I have been overrun… Read more >
National Wildlife Week: Tuesday Tweets (not that kind)
Tuesday Tweets, the second post in our National Wildlife Week series, hopes that after you retweet this blog post you’ll shut it down and take your lunch break outside. But first, check out these birds that make ridiculously long migrations annually. Read more >
Migration Begins!
August is waning and school is about to start. Even though it’s technically still summer for another whole month, fall migration is already beginning for some species. The change of seasons is an important influence on animal behavior. Whether it’s the… Read more >
Two-Minute Video: An AZ. Man Who Feeds Thousands of Hummingbirds (In A Day)
Jesse Hendrix has a ranch in Arizona along the migration route for many species of hummingbirds. During the peak of migration, as many as 9,000 hummers will visit him in a day and consume 13 gallons of nectar from his… Read more >
