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

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

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and his team described this unusual mimicry behavior for the first time in hummingbirds. “We know so little about what nesting birds do in the tropics,” said Falk, the paper’s first author ...

Falk, a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Taylor’s lab at the University of Colorado, Boulder, said it was the first time such mimicry had been seen in hummingbirds. He said: “We know so little about ...