Male and female hummingbirds can be difficult to tell apart, but they have a few key differences. Given their behaviors, it's ...

One of my favorite joys of the summer months is watching our amazing hummingbirds. The broad-tailed hummingbirds arrive ...

The male has a white breast, but the rest of him, including his gorget, is mostly a color that can be described as copper, rusty, orange or rufous. The female is a mix of rufous, green, and gray ...

Our female rufous hummingbird, after only a day of skirmishing with the resident black-chinned hummingbirds, was joined by a striking adult male the very next day, so her rule over the yard was ...

Rufous hummingbirds fly 3,900 miles for one of the longest known hummingbird ... Calliope and Costa’s hummingbirds. Male hummingbirds court female hummingbirds by soaring upward and then ...

But one Mississippi man is enjoying a rare event as what appears to be a female Rufous hummingbird has taken up residence at his home. "I was excited," said Wayne Patterson of Columbus.

How to identify Allen’s, Black-chinned, Calliope, Rufous hummingbirds. Plus shape, pattern, habitat, behavior of Ruby-throated hummingbird in NC.

A Selasphorus, or rufous, hummingbird sips nectar from a plant at Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge in Wyoming in this photo from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Tom Koerner/USFWS. By .

So she visited, caught, and then banded this female rufous hummingbird. That was the second rufous I had seen in three days. The first one was at a friend’s house, and he wasn’t even sure it ...