Mention hummingbirds in Mississippi and ruby-throated hummingbirds will most likely be the species that comes to mind. They are the only hummingbird species that breeds in eastern North America and ...
Whilst on a field expedition in the Andes in April 2017, ornithologist Francisco Sornoza-Molina, at the Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad in Ecuador, saw a young male hummingbird that he didn’t ...
Hummingbirds love flower nectar and Colombian ornithologist Juan Camilo Ríos-Orjuela wants to find out how that has influenced their evolution, including how it could have led to the great species ...
Bill shape affects how efficiently a hummingbird feeds and how it competes with other hummingbirds. Because of humans, they ...
The hummingbird study that Tom Smith and Chris Schneider are conducting in Ecuador is part of a much larger research program spanning three continents. Evolutionary biologists are fanning out and ...
“It shows that all of nature is in constant flux and changing on some scale. This one is a dramatic change. It’s the ...
Beat the winter blues by planting now — from snapdragons to foxgloves, these spring flowers started from seed will have ...
Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...