After any snowfall, wild sources of food may also be hidden. "Putting up a bird feeder is important in winter if natural food ...

Hummingbirds are tiny gems in our gardens. These minute birds hover almost magically and fill our gardens with iridescent color. But maybe you find yourself asking: What do hummingbirds eat? Many ...

IN the letters on the above subject that have appeared in some recent numbers of NATURE, the writers lead us to believe that a current of air is necessary to enable a bird to “hover” or retain when on ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The long-standing paradigm that pollination systems adapted to hovering birds evolved only in the New World was recently challenged by the ...

Flying forward is hard enough, but flying nowhere, just hovering, is so much harder. Most bats and birds can manage the feat for only a few frantic seconds. Hovering means losing a useful aerodynamic ...

My wife Kathy aimed her camera toward the sky at a lovely white bird hovering over a coastal field, its wings fluttering in the breeze like a child’s paper kite. Perhaps that’s why the bird became ...

IN reading the letters published in your last issues of NATURE with regard to the hovering of birds, it struck me that a very similar thing can be seen sometimes, among inanimate objects when an ...