Hummingbirds of Minnesota

Henderson Hummingbird Garden is Minnesota's signature hummingbird destination and one of the most important Ruby-throated Hummingbird community sites in the Upper Midwest. The public garden includes flowers planted for hummingbirds and butterflies, benches, a picnic table, a pergola, and more than 20 feeders. Henderson is also home to the annual Hummingbird Hurrah, a free family-friendly event with banding, speakers, garden tours, educational displays, and conservation outreach.

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Minnesota Landscape Arboretum is one of the state's strongest hummingbird-friendly public garden destinations, connecting garden beauty, native plant education, pollinator science, and wildlife habitat at a major university arboretum. Visitors can explore the Garden for Pollinators at the Bee Center, pollinator-friendly plantings around the Tashjian Bee and Pollinator Discovery Center, the Johanna Frerichs Garden for Wildlife, Bennett-Johnson Prairie, Spring Peeper Meadow, and many seasonal garden displays.

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Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary is one of Minnesota's most important native plant and birding places. Founded in 1907, it is widely described as the oldest public native plant garden in the United States, with woodland, wetland, and prairie habitats in the heart of Minneapolis. More than 500 native plant species grow within the garden, and more than 130 resident and migratory bird species use the sanctuary.

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Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge gives the Minnesota Hummingbird Trail a strong federal conservation anchor close to the Twin Cities. The refuge protects tallgrass prairie, floodplain forest, wetlands, and Minnesota River Valley habitat. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service guidance highlights wild bergamot in prairie areas and jewelweed in semi-shaded areas in August, both useful nectar plants for hummingbirds preparing for migration. The refuge offers more than 45 miles of trails and major urban access.

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Northland Arboretum adds important northern Minnesota habitat to the Hummingbird Trail, with more than 400 acres of restored prairie, jack pine savanna, wetlands, streams, native forests, grasslands, and gardens in the Brainerd lakes region. Its Pollinator Garden explicitly supports bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and other pollinators, and the property is designated by the State of Minnesota as an Important Bird Area.

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