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You may have noticed more hummingbirds around lately. They start heading south as early as July so more are moving through Teller County. In addition to our common breeder the broad-tailed hummingbird ...

billy barr tells us the lilies emergence is out of sync with the hummingbirds arrival. billy barr looks through the logs he's been keeping for almost 50 years. He explains how the glacier lilies ...

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 ...

Because billions of birds migrate in North America, this asynchrony of needs and availability of resources could become a widespread problem Male broad-tailed hummingbirds (hereafter BTH), Selasphorus ...

Bird watchers in South Jersey have another reason to be a twitter with joy this spring. Cape May County is now home to a broad-tailed hummingbird—a creature never before seen in the Garden State. Pete ...

I love the springtime! The variety of birds coming to and through our area in the next six weeks or so is more than any other time of year. Amongst reports of flocks of Cedar Waxwings, Evening ...

While humans have three color cones in the retina sensitive to red, green and blue light, birds have a fourth color cone that can detect ultraviolet light. A research team led by Princeton's Mary ...

Princeton senior Cole Morokhovich still marvels at the possibility that his academic path may have come down to one five-minute window. Having come to Princeton with a focus on pre-medicine, he had ...