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

Wings ablur, zipping from bloom to bloom, hummingbirds rarely seem to rest. Photographer Soo Baus can relate. Between shifts as a trauma ICU nurse, Baus is usually outside, camera in hand, searching ...

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 ...

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 ...