hummer

Calscape, the California Native Plant Society’s plant database, says there is no better single plant than California fuchsias for attracting hummers.

These strategies have not been reported before, likely because hummers maneuver too quickly for the human eye to see.

Each spring I hang a nectar feeder in my backyard, then patiently await the first hummer.

Those are the flowers where photographers want to catch the hummers.

The researchers were surprised to find new colors in the hummers, which widened the known avian color gamut by 56% and included rarely seen saturated greens and blues, they report in Communications Biology.