Our writer travels to the eastern Andes in search of one of Ecuador’s most elusive birds ...

The orangey-red rufous hummingbird is feisty and fierce. Learn to identify males and females, listen to their call and see ...

Based on the number of reports from readers who have rufous hummingbirds at their feeders, I'm beginning to wonder if the ruddy-colored hummingbirds are making Texas their winter home this year. It's ...

I wondered if the rufous hummingbird would show up to spend the winter in our yard, as it had for the past four years. The Western hummingbird always arrived in August. Maybe it was just late this ...

As September ends the yellow flowers of wild goldenrods are joined by the lavender, blue, pink, or white blossoms of asters. They, like so many other flowers that bloom now, are members of the ...

Based on the number of reports from readers who have rufous hummingbirds at their feeders, I'm beginning to wonder if the ruddy-colored hummingbirds are making Texas their winter home this year. It's ...

The Rufous Hummingbird is magical. The male’s iridescent throat glows brighter than a shiny copper penny and like most hummingbirds, whizzes through the air curiously hovering right in front of humans ...

The birds that Levihn-Coon photographed were a mated pair near their nest, he said. One of the owls had a rare reddish-brown, or rufous, coloration. Typically, Eastern Screech Owls in Central Texas ...

Plucky, beautiful and declining in numbers at about a 2% annual rate, the rufous hummingbird makes its long annual migration in different timing and route patterns based the birds' age and sex, new ...

The temperature the morning I wrote this column was 30 degrees and the three hummingbird feeders I still have out were partially frozen. To most people, it seems strange to expect to see a hummingbird ...