Birds have evolved some very strange features and behaviors in order to woo mates. Birds-of-paradise feathers are a natural vantablack. Bowerbirds build elaborate and colorful nests. And it seems that ...

Scientists have discovered a new behavior that Costa's hummingbirds employ during their mating ritual. Male Costa's hummingbirds perform a high-speed dive that's unlike any other hummingbird species' ...

Many of the world's smallest hummingbirds, including the West Coast's Anna's and the East Coast's ruby-throated, execute display dives to seduce females and drive away intruders. A characteristic ...

When it comes to flirting, animals know how to put on a show. In the bird world, males often go to great lengths to attract female attention, like peacocks shaking their tail feathers and manakins ...

Phenotypic characters with a complex physical basis may have a correspondingly complex evolutionary history. Males in the “bee” hummingbird clade court females with sound from tail-feathers, which ...

A week ago I heard the familiar sound on hummingbird wings while filling bird feeders on our back porch. It happened so fast I had to quickly scan the area and found a female ruby-throated hummingbird ...