American Journal of Botany, Vol. 92, No. 11 (Nov., 2005), pp. 1899-1910 (12 pages) We estimate phylogenetic relationships and the biogeographic and pollination history of Costus subgenus Costus ...

A newly constructed family tree of the hummingbirds, published today in the journal Current Biology, tells a story of a unique group of birds that originated in Europe, passed through Asia and North ...

Evolution, Vol. 64, No. 2 (February 2010), pp. 324-335 (12 pages) The remarkable diversity of coloration and species present in hummingbirds has been considered the result of sexual selection. I ...

The Hummingbird appeared in 1960 and is regarded as the first Martin-esque square-shouldered Gibson acoustic guitar (as opposed to the classic round-shouldered Jumbo design). But it wasn’t the first ...

Bill shape affects how efficiently a hummingbird feeds and how it competes with other hummingbirds. Because of humans, they ...

If you want to know what makes hummingbirds tick, it’s best to avoid most poetry about them. Bird-beam of the summer day, – Whither on your sunny way? Whither? Probably off to have a bloodcurdling ...