Photographer and Costa ambassador Andy Mann ventures to a Chilean archipelago that draws comparisons to the Galápagos.

His hummingbird photographs were first published in the November 1960 issue of National Geographic. For a study of male Cuba’s bee hummingbirds’ mating displays, scientists captured the birds ...

A male hummingbird simply pausing on a perch can ... whose paper published this week in the journal Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences. The study is a “big step forward,” offering ...

Photography by Lynn Johnson, National Geographic Letting hummingbirds loose in wind tunnels allows researchers to probe the mechanics of flight at airspeeds of up to 35 miles an hour. This black ...

National Geographic Explorer Anand Varma points ... But through years of photographing a growing list of species–from hummingbirds to parasites–and their biological processes, he’s arrived ...

Why we like it: Just like cardinals, hummingbirds love the color red ... opinions of these experiences or products with you, National Geographic is not endorsing these experiences or products ...

The National Geographic Society ... 19th-century mining town eight miles north of Crested Butte. Around us, hummingbirds wing-whistled among the lupines, aspen sunflowers, and dwarf larkspurs.

The hummingbird. Since they became widely known ... According to Johan Rein­hard, a National Geographic explorer-in-residence, the mountains have traditionally been associated—mythologically ...