Kindhearted Woman Turns Her Apartment into a Hummingbird Hospital
Catia Lattouf de Arída has been using her apartment in Mexico City as a hospital and sanctuary for injured and abandoned hummingbirds for the last 11 years. As pollinating agents, hummingbirds are a very important part of Mexico’s ecosystem, but because of the ever-expanding urban landscape, they face all sorts of serious threats. That’s where […]
World’s Smallest Bird Lays Its Eggs in a Nest the Size of a Quarter
Only slightly larger that the insect it’s named after, the Bee Hummingbird weighs no more than two grams and lays eggs roughly the size of coffee beans. It is officially the world’s tiniest bird. Found only in Cuba, the Bee Hummingbird is extremely small even for a hummingbird, so much so that people often mistake […]
UCLA Researcher Grows Colony of 200-Plus Hummingbirds Outside Her Office
Melanie Barboni, an assistant researcher at UCLA’s Earth, Planetary and Space Science department, is known as an expert in geology and volcanic activity among her colleagues, but those who haven’t worked with her before know her only as the “hummingbird whisperer”. She has always been fascinated by the tiny birds, and after moving to Los […]
Every Day This Nice Old Man Is Visited by a Wild Hummingbird
Every day, 83-year-old Joao Silvestrini has the most unusual visitor – a hummingbird! It flies in and out of the kitchen window of his Brazil home several times a day, stopping for a chirpy chat and a drink of sugar water. The story of the unusual friendship between man and bird has become popular on […]