The finding has come about via a new way of examining the behaviour of hummingbirds in the wild. This finding, based on biological field work, reveals the tongues to be like long, skinny pumps. This ...

A new way of looking at hummingbird tongues sees them mainly as long, skinny pumps. This view challenges an old notion of how hummingbirds sip — that nectar flows up open grooves in the tongue the way ...

Hummingbirds drink a lot of sugary-sweet nectar from flowers and feeders. To reach the nectar deep inside a flower they use their long bills and very long tongues. I got to thinking about this when I ...

Alejandro Rico Guevara receives funding from the National Science Foundation. Kristiina Hurme does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would ...

Thanks to a new study, we finally know how hummingbird tongues work. Until now, the general consensus was that hummingbirds used capillary action to sip tiny bursts of nectar. Capillary action is a ...