North Carolina’s most common hummingbird — the Ruby-throated ... the co-founder at Cape Fear Bird Observatory and a research affiliate focusing on hummingbirds with the NC Museum of Natural ...

Although they nest only in the northwoods and the mountains, they’re among the most common summer birds all across the vast forested regions of Canada, Alaska and the northern states.

North American bird populations are shrinking most rapidly in the very areas where they are still most abundant, according to a new study leveraging citizen science data for nearly 500 bird species.