Hummingbirds, unique to the Americas, boast diverse adaptations. The sword-billed hummingbird's beak exceeds its body length, while the long-tailed sylph flaunts extravagant tail streamers for ...

Dexterous hummingbirds can flap their wings up to 5,000 times a minute to create their signature drumming noise. This skill means that up to 30 per cent of their body weight is made of flight muscle ...

Chances are, you've been lucky enough to see a hummingbird in the wild. Given their size, their ultra-fast wing speed (which has to burn some serious energy), you might not imagine that hummingbird ...

New research finds that larger hummingbirds show better mechanochemical efficiency -- the first time this has been observed in birds. A new U of T Scarborough study has found that when it comes to ...