A white-necked jacobin hummingbird chick surprises scientists, scaring away wasps by mimicking a poisonous caterpillar.

Baby hummingbirds can be hard to find, but searching for them is worth it. They're an adorable reminder that tiny miracles are constantly happening in nature. One way to increase your chances of ...

Ruby-throated hummingbirds are among some of the most incredible migrating animals, traveling hundreds of miles in a single flight.

Hummingbird chicks pretend to be a caterpillar to avoid being eaten, reveals new research. The tiny birds, smaller than a pinky finger, act like poisonous caterpillars to survive, American ecologists ...

A chance encounter in a Panama rainforest has uncovered a new defensive behavior in white-necked Jacobin hummingbird chicks. In March 2024, Michael Castaño of the Smithsonian Tropical Research ...

For the first time, scientists described a hummingbird chick potentially mimicking a poisonous caterpillar to avoid getting eaten. When Jay Falk and Scott Taylor first saw the white-necked Jacobin ...

When Jay Falk and Scott Taylor first saw the white-necked Jacobin hummingbird chick in Panama’s dense rainforest, the bird biologists didn’t know what they were looking at. The day-old bird, smaller ...