Our writer travels to the eastern Andes in search of one of Ecuador’s most elusive birds ...

You’ll know it’s a male rufous hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus) if you see its back completely covered with coppery orange feathers. Males are reddish brown on the back, base of crown and most of the ...

Based on the number of reports from readers who have rufous hummingbirds at their feeders, I'm beginning to wonder if the ruddy-colored hummingbirds are making Texas their winter home this year. It's ...

I wondered if the rufous hummingbird would show up to spend the winter in our yard, as it had for the past four years. The Western hummingbird always arrived in August. Maybe it was just late this ...

As September ends the yellow flowers of wild goldenrods are joined by the lavender, blue, pink, or white blossoms of asters. They, like so many other flowers that bloom now, are members of the ...

Based on the number of reports from readers who have rufous hummingbirds at their feeders, I'm beginning to wonder if the ruddy-colored hummingbirds are making Texas their winter home this year. It's ...

The temperature the morning I wrote this column was 30 degrees and the three hummingbird feeders I still have out were partially frozen. To most people, it seems strange to expect to see a hummingbird ...

The birds that Levihn-Coon photographed were a mated pair near their nest, he said. One of the owls had a rare reddish-brown, or rufous, coloration. Typically, Eastern Screech Owls in Central Texas ...

Plucky, beautiful and declining in numbers at about a 2% annual rate, the rufous hummingbird makes its long annual migration in different timing and route patterns based the birds' age and sex, new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Conservation organization Aussie Ark announced the newest member of its family on January 21 – an orphaned Rufous Bettong joey ...