Dive-bombing for Love: How Male Broad-tailed Hummingbirds Woo Females 2 (IMAGE)

Princeton University

Dive-bombing for Love: How Male Broad-tailed Hummingbirds Woo Females 2

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A male broad-tailed hummingbird climbs upward on the final leg of its U-shaped dive past a would-be mate. A team of Princeton biologists has discovered that these birds dazzle females with a highly synchronized display of sound, color, and speed.

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David Inouye, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory

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