What is smaller than the width of a dime and weighs less than half a gram? That would be the egg of an Allen’s hummingbird. This tiny bird lays tiny eggs and lives in tiny nests. We are ...

Since hummingbirds are tiny creatures, you can only imagine how small their nests are. Luckily, you can learn how to spot one easily with some practice.

Sometimes birds will lay unfertilized eggs. If the mom is OK, then she likely knew instinctively that the eggs wouldn’t hatch and she abandoned the nest.

Hummingbirds generally lay two eggs, which are about the size of Tic Tac mints. The mother incubates the eggs, leaving only briefly to feed.

You might want to skip over that so-called hummingbird house in the store, because it won't attract any birds. Luckily, there are other ways to help them nest.

By Howard Whiteman Murray State University It was an odd place for a hummingbird nest, but there it was. I typically think ...

Birds are capable of laying just one egg a day, so with birds that lay many eggs, it can be more than two weeks between the first and last egg.

Bella is a hummingbird from LaVerne, California, who is an internet star in her own right. Bella’s story dates back to 2005 when she built a nest on private property. The property owner watched ...

Most hummingbirds are “twins,” hatched with a single sibling that will share their nest and the care of a dutiful mother. The female ruby-throated hummingbird lay two eggs.

Reporting from San Francisco — A tiny unborn hummingbird is getting in the way of a big bridge project in the San Francisco Bay Area. The discovery of a nest and egg in a tree is stalling the ...

Costa’s hummingbirds typically lay two eggs at a time, each one usually measuring half an inch by a quarter of an inch. An egg takes about two weeks to hatch. Beall said “fingers are crossed ...