Flower nectar often contains small amounts of alcohol, meaning pollinators like hummingbirds are drinking it all day long.

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Hummingbirds are truly a joy to watch, flying as they can in amazing directions. If you'd like to see more of them, plant ...

In good light, male Rufous Hummingbirds glow like coals: bright orange on the back and belly, with a vivid iridescent-red ...

Everyone loves to watch hummingbirds—tiny, brightly colored blurs that dart about, hovering at flowers and pugnaciously defending their ownership of a feeder. But to the scientists who study them, ...

Hummingbird bills -- their long, thin beaks -- look a little like drinking straws. But new research shows just how little water, or nectar, that comparison holds. Scientists have discovered that the ...

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