A new study reveals that human-made hummingbird feeders have driven evolutionary changes in Anna’s Hummingbirds over the past ...

Ready to wing it? Roger’s Gardens plans ‘Hummingbird Summer’ event to benefit wildlife A small Anna’s hummingbird rests for a moment at the San Joaquin Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary in Irvine.

And while Baus has upgraded her gear over the years (she currently uses a Sony Alpha 1 camera with a 200–600mm lens; “I’m stopping here—well, maybe not”), she believes photographers at any level can ...

A captive Anna’s hummingbird feeds while hovering before an optical illusion in a reenactment of an experiment that illustrates just how heavily hummingbird flight depends on the bird’s visual ...

California fuchsia (Zauschneria californica) are ground-hugging, drought-tolerant subshrubs with red fuchsia-like trumpets that attract Anna’s hummingbirds in Western regions. Zones 8-11 Vines ...

The Anna’s Hummingbirds in California reacted to environmental changes with impressive speed: They showed marked shifts in their beak shapes within just a couple decades, or around 10 generations, ...

In the same way, the beak of Anna’s hummingbird – Calypte anna – might become a symbol of evolution during the Anthropocene. The bill of this pint-sized bird has changed shape dramatically over the ...

Discoveries about evolution have long been intertwined with bird beaks. The huge variety of beak shapes among finches in the Galapagos Islands became emblematic of Charles Darwin’s theory of natural ...

Soon enough, hummingbirds were approaching the feeders with novel beak shapes that enhanced their ability to suck nectar from the outlets. The evolution was evident, but there was no data to establish ...

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