Every winter, most North American hummingbirds embark on a strenuous journey south. They may be tiny, but their trip is anything but small. Like many species of birds, most hummingbirds migrate ...

Hummingbirds, the tiniest birds in the world, have some impressive flying and navigating skills. Most North American hummingbird species are migratory. Each year, these minuscule creatures head ...

Ruby-throated hummingbirds winter in Mexico and Central America. To get there from their North American breeding grounds some birds embark on a marathon, nonstop flight across the Gulf of Mexico.

The 2022 State of the Birds report by the U.S. Committee of the North American Bird Conservation Initiative found that more than half the population of the rufous hummingbird has been lost since 1970.

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.