A baby hummingbird might have a special way of warding off predators, which threaten tropical hummingbird species in infancy. Baby White-necked jacobins (Florisuga mellivora) in Panama seem to pretend ...
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 ...
The shape and color of hibiscus flowers are highly attractive to hummingbirds, plus they offer plenty of energy-rich nectar. Choose from tropical, woody shrub, or native perennial hibiscus types that ...
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (WPRI) — More than 300 bird species call Massachusetts home, but the purple gallinule isn’t one of them. The tropical bird is generally found in South America and southern Florida, ...