Behind my house is a blue spruce, at the tip top of which is the favorite perch of my local black-chinned hummingbird, Mr. Big. Mr. Big is probably more than one bird, but I call them that because the ...

A number of birds sustain themselves by eating insects, but apparently, in some cases, the tables have turned. Researchers found most of the 147 documented cases from around the world occurred in the ...

They blend in with their leafy surroundings, strike with lightning speed and eat the brains of small birds — and they're only about nine centimetres long. Researchers from the University of Basel have ...