Hummingbirds are small birds native to the Americas ... especially the species that live in the more remote areas. The white-necked jacobin hummingbird (Florisuga mellivora) is a medium-sized ...

Newly hatched White-necked Jacobin chick. Notice its dorsal fluffy down feathers. Newly hatched White-necked Jacobin chick. Notice its dorsal fluffy down feathers. Caterpillar of the family ...

Another explanation for the feathers in white-necked jacobin chicks is that the birds evolved spine-like feathers to protect the softest parts of their bodies from predators. There is a chance ...

A White-necked Jacobin chick may use mimicry or camouflage to avoid predators, resembling a caterpillar with fluffy feathers.

The unique behavior was discovered by bird biologists Jay Falk and Scott Taylor who did not know what they were looking at when they first saw the white-necked Jacobin hummingbird chick in the ...

both working for STRI saw a white-necked jacobin nest in Soberanía National Park with an egg inside and a momma bird keeping watch over it, they alerted Falk. Together, they all kept watch over ...

The remarkable thing about the white-necked jacobin hummingbird chicks is that here we have a bird mimicking the larval stage of an insect and is replicating movements as well. These impressive ...