Witness the beautiful return of a male Ruby Throated Hummingbird after its long seasonal migration. #BirdWatching ...

Hummingbirds are back in Massachusetts, as the fast‑winged birds continue their annual spring migration. Ruby-throated hummingbirds were reported April 15 and 17 in the Central Massachusetts ...

With the work it takes to raise a hummingbird family, females are typically scarce through the summer. But now, they're starting to appear.

Every morning, a hummingbird visits the same plant on the same schedule, and researchers now think that routine might be doing something far more strategic than saving the bird a few seconds of ...

Out of the more than 3,000 native plants in Illinois, only 57 have orange flowers, according to state botanist Paul Marcum.

The sky was smoky the day I wrote this column, although it’s often hazy early in the morning in the valley where I live. But ...

Fourth of July is used as a rule-of-thumb date to mark the turning point — the high noon — of the natural year.

Birding has historically been the domain of the AARP crowd, but in the World Series, young people have an edge. And these ...

Commentary: Gerald Winegrad shares observations of the natural world from Oyster Creek as Maryland enters the heat of summer.

Bogs form through a slow transformation that can take thousands of years. A variety of plants began to colonize the margins ...

By midsummer, the deck in our backyard is lined with a profusion of tall orange flowers. Each flower is shaped like a small ...

Most of us know of the ruby-throated hummingbird, a common visitor that weighs between 3 and 5 grams, less than a nickel.