Although more than 300 known species of hummingbird grace gardens around the world, only about a dozen species routinely migrate through North America, and even fewer remain year-round in the warmest ...

Good news for bird lovers: it's hummingbird season. The diminutive bird's spring migration, when they head north toward their breeding grounds from Central America and Mexico, begins around February.

As attractive as hummingbird feeders are, the most effective way to persuade hummingbirds to live and nest in your garden, is to provide a wide variety of plants that produce nectar-rich flowers ...

Hummingbirds migrate north in the spring, and their arrival is eagerly anticipated by some gardeners. Certain plants, like cuphea, geraniums, impatiens, lantana, nicotiana, petunias, salvias, and ...

If you're like many bird lovers, hummingbirds may be your favorite species. It's hard to resist wanting to watch these cute and tiny birds, but the key is to be able to attract them to your yard in ...

Every spring I make a list of the plants that hummingbirds visited the most the year before, and then my search at garden centers and nurseries begins in earnest. The plants I look for are the ones ...

These days the hummingbirds are everywhere, it seems. It is not uncommon to get dive-bombed by one if you are in the vicinity of a food source. Feeding hummingbirds with a feeder filled with ...

Every spring the hummingbirds come from Mexico and Central America. Some come to spend the summer here, especially the broad-tailed hummingbird. Others may just pass through on their way to breeding ...