Maryland is home to seven hummingbird species, out of which only two species regularly nest and breed there. Aside from sometimes being found in backyards as they’re attracted to...
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Wisconsin is home to eight types of hummingbirds, including some of the most common species in North America. Although only a few of them nest there, many hummingbirds migrate through the...
Texas is home to nineteen species of hummingbirds because of both the climate and the abundance of food. This makes the Lone Star State one of the most diverse states when it comes to...
Illinois isn’t home to many hummingbird species – in fact, four species of hummingbirds are purely accidental. This means that they’ve been spotted two times or less in the last ten...
Photo: Kevin M. Gill / Flickr / CC BY 2.0 Hummingbirds are specialized nectarivores in the order of Apodiformes. The order name means footless in Latin, and all it takes is a glance to understand...
Photo: Mary Shattock / Flickr / CC BY SA 2.0 Hummingbirds are small birds found in a variety of wild and urban habitats. Other, bigger birds, mammals, and reptiles live in these habitats,...
