Jane Patterson, the president and education chair of the Baton Rouge Audubon Society, started her birding odyssey in 2005 ...

The Ruby-throated and Black-chinned hummingbirds ... Hummingbird is seen about to extract nectar from a yellow and red flower. Hummingbirds eat nectar from flowers and small insects, such as ...

Hummingbirds are experts at using tailwinds to help reach their destination faster. Research suggests that a hummingbird can travel as much as 23 miles in one day. For a bird that tiny, that’s quite ...

Discover fun and surprising hummingbird facts, like what is on the hummingbird diet, if they sing, how far they migrate and ...

Females have variable plumage but most have green upperparts and a blue-green throat. These hummingbirds are very ... distinctive banding made up of red, yellow, and black. This aposematic ...

The red buckeye’s showy, red flowers are blooming in the wild now beneath forest canopies in Georgia’s Piedmont and Coastal Plain regions. The plant, typically a small shrub, also has been widely ...

The male birds display blue, green and red feathers, while the female buntings can be identified by their bright yellow-green ... Scott Hartley Ruby-throated hummingbirds Easily identified by ...

(For the record, they are the red-bellied woodpecker, northern flicker, downy woodpecker, hairy woodpecker, yellow-bellied sapsucker ... Left, a black-throated blue warbler in Stony Brook.

The ruby-throated hummingbird nests will be built near the tip of a down-sloping branch with a fairly open area below and the tree canopy above. Popular tree species for nest building include oak, ...