You already know that hummingbirds are amazing animals — they can hover in place for minutes at a time, fly backwards at will, and flap their buzzing wings up to 70 times per second. But how much do ...

Costa's hummingbird males try to impress the females by dive-bombing them at over 80 kilometres per hour and using the incredible acceleration and speed to generate a song with their tail feathers.

A small hummingbird has been found to "sing" through its tail feathers rather than its voice-box in the same way a wind musician plays a note on a clarinet. Scientists have found that the Anna's ...