Acclaimed photographer Christian Spencer’s exclusive photos of hummingbirds with their wings illuminated like prisms are magical, otherworldly, and entirely natural. “My photos are a photoshop-free zone,” the 45-year-old photographer told The Epoch Times. Spencer, an Australian-born professional artist, filmmaker, and photographer, currently lives in Brazil. He uses a semi-professional camera and does not deploy any…

Hummingbirds usually call to mind tranquil water baths, graceful fluttering wings, and long beaks drinking from nectar-filled flowers. But there’s another side to this serene-seeming bird that defies expectation. SoCal-based photographer Terry Williams knows that hummingbirds can be “very territorial”—and he recently captured some extraordinary shots of the birds dueling. In recent years, Williams has…

One little bird is standing out from the over-300 species of hummingbird that exist on planet Earth for a dazzling feature: its iridescent bright blue and green plumage that looks like a cloak made of sequins. This tiny jewel seems like it’s flown straight out of the pages of a fairytale. The male crowned woodnymph…

Dramatic photos taken in Ecuador capture an extremely rare hummingbird the split moment it “hangs” onto the elongated beak of a rival bird in the wild. The sword-billed hummingbird was beaten to the bird feeder in the photographs, taken by Nicolas Reusens, who described the scene as a “once-in-a-lifetime” moment. The 45-year-old photographer caught the…