New research is providing insight into when torpor happens in some varieties of hummingbirds common to B.C. and how much the birds bulk up for migration.

Powered by nectar and a metabolic marvel, migratory hummingbirds travel thousands of kilometres each year, breeding in places like British Columbia before making the journey as far away as Mexico ...

For the past eight years, Clark has traveled from ... University of British Columbia, Vancouver) Letting hummingbirds loose in wind tunnels allows researchers to probe the mechanics of flight ...