Articles for tag: arizona hummingbirds, bird behavior in hot climates, Desert ecosystem, hummingbird survival in heat, wildlife of Arizona

Why Arizona’s Hummingbirds Thrive in Heat – 7 Survival Tricks

Suhail Ahmed

By noon in an Arizona July, the desert air can feel like it’s leaning on your shoulders, relentless and shimmering. Yet a blur of emerald and amethyst hums through that furnace as if running on a private breeze. The mystery is real: how do gram‑sized birds keep from overheating where summer days punch past one ...

a hummingbird hovering over an orange flower

Arizona Hummingbirds Defy the Desert

Suhail Ahmed

At dawn in the Sonoran heat, a tiny streak of iridescence stabs the air like a spark, then hovers, steady as a heartbeat, over a red chuparosa bloom. The question that keeps ecologists awake is simple and electrifying: how do hummingbirds keep pace with a that can switch from drought to deluge in a week. ...