The broad-tailed hummingbird was feeding noisily at the feeder when a bolt of copper shot from the sky right toward it. Flashes of red, green and orange filled the air as the two miniature-flying ...

A rufous hummingbird showed up at our hummingbird feeders despite temperatures in the low teens and a snow-covered backyard under dense cloud cover. The plump male bird, with a deep-red throat and ...

A common species of western mountains, where the male’s diagnostic, cricketlike wing trill is a characteristic sound. Like many “western” hummingbirds, the broad-tailed is increasingly found in late ...

If you want to start a spirited but friendly argument between birders, just ask a group to identify a rufous or an Allen’s hummingbird. You might as well send out for food, because the debate could ...

Ruby-throated hummingbirds are migrating south for the winter, but other species may winter in Mississippi. Coastal residents have a higher likelihood of spotting wintering hummingbirds, including ...

August is the peak of hummingbird season in Teller County. Our local breeder is the Broad-tailed, but starting in July a couple of others move in: the Rufous and Calliope. They are all greenish in ...

You’ll know it’s a male rufous hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus) if you see its back completely covered with coppery orange feathers. Males are reddish brown on the back, base of crown and most of the ...