LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Temperatures are trending up this time of year, and so are the hummingbirds. The colorful and speedy birds are migrating north throughout the United States and several reported ...

Most birds create lift mainly as they push air downward on the downstroke. Hummingbirds do something different. Their wings ...

With their wings flapping faster than the eye can see and hearts thumping at full speed, hummingbirds make their annual migration north each spring. These tiny, mighty, jewel-toned birds have been ...

Anna's hummingbird flying in the experimental setup, drinking sugar water from a fake flower. Credit: Lentink Lab / Stanford University. Anna's hummingbird flying in the experimental setup, drinking ...

ARKANSAS, USA — Hummingbird season is here and experts are asking for help in tracking them by submitting sightings online. Hummingbirds are easy to recognize as they tend to fly low and hover over ...

Their diminutive wings fluttering 15 to 80 times a second, hummingbirds are homing in on the Lower Hudson Valley as they fly north for the spring. Some are already here. A sighting of a ruby-throated ...

Bio-inspired wind sensing using strain sensors on flexible wings could revolutionize robotic flight control strategy. Researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo have developed a method to detect wind ...

Hummingbirds are highly maneuverable fliers, flitting forward and backward as they home in on flowers. But in the dense foliage many inhabit, they often encounter gaps that are too narrow for their ...