The nests are only about the size of a golf ball. Sometimes the babies are reunited with their parents, but often they'll be brought to the shelter for care until they can be released back into the ...

This was one seriously agitated ruby-throated hummingbird. Almost 40 years ago, but I can still see myself and four undergraduate assistants standing in a small opening within a heavily forested ...

Eleven hummingbird species have been spotted in North Carolina, though the Ruby-throated hummingbird — the most prevalent species in the state by a landslide — is the one most of us will see this ...