Hummingbirds are unique among birds for numerous reasons, and that also includes their backward flying capability. Like almost every other bird species, they can do it all: hover, fly upside down and ...

You might know hummingbirds are the only bird species that can fly backward. You might not realize all 363 species of hummingbirds on Earth occur in the New World. If you go to Africa or Thailand or ...

Birds are all around us, and as such, we don't necessarily think about how incredible they are. These are creatures that descended from therapods, a group of two-legged dinosaurs to which the ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...