A baby hummingbird hatches. But it has fluffy feathers on its back, looking just like a dangerous caterpillar. Could this be ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

In a cute first, a curious observation led to a sweet and thrilling discovery of a caterpillar-like hummingbird with ... Described as a natural “mimicry,” the White-necked Jacobin, along ...

Now researchers may have stumbled upon a rare case of bird mimicry inside a tiny hummingbird ... the chick finally hatched and revealed a baby hummingbird with long fluffy white down feathers.

A baby white-necked jacobin hummingbird, just hatched and utterly vulnerable ... (Credit: Michael Castaño-Díaz) This is one of the few known cases of potential Batesian mimicry in birds. A comparable ...

Scott Taylor, adviser to the main scientist of this research, noticed that this baby hummingbird had long ... This species is not the first one to show this kind of mimicry. Cinereous Mourner, a bird ...

One example of this type of mimicry is the Cinereous Mourner (Laniocera hypopyrra), a bird native to South America known for their caterpillar-like baby chicks. With this in mind, they searched online ...

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