A baby hummingbird might have a special way of warding off predators, which threaten tropical hummingbird species in infancy.

Now researchers may have stumbled upon a rare case of bird mimicry inside a tiny hummingbird nest ... After 18-20 days of ...

The white-necked jacobin (Florisuga mellivora) is a jewel-toned hummingbird found in the neotropical lowlands of South ...

Uncover the mysteries of hummingbirds. How does the white-necked jacobin trick predators through mimicry? Find out now.

A baby hummingbird hatches ... Chelina Batista, iNaturalist One example of this type of mimicry is the Cinereous Mourner (Laniocera hypopyrra), a bird native to South America known for their ...

Tiny hummingbird chicks were observed mimicking a poisonous caterpillar to survive in the Panama rainforest–a first for science.

That changed when Michael Castaño-Díaz and Sebastián Gallan Giraldo, a Ph.D student and research assistant, spotted a White-necked Jacobin nest with a caring female and one egg in a national park in ...

More information: Jay J. Falk et al, Potential caterpillar mimicry in a tropical hummingbird, Ecology (2025). DOI: 10.1002/ecy.70060 ...

Finally, the egg had hatched and a tiny baby hummingbird came to this world ... One example of this type of mimicry is the Cinereous Mourner (Laniocera hypopyrra), a bird native to South America ...

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