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Hummingbirds Near Hawks Benefit from Nest Protection (6 of 9)

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Hummingbirds Near Hawks Benefit from Nest Protection (6 of 9)

image: Mexican Jays are always looking to bring home hummingbird babies and eggs to feed their own nestlings. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Sept. 4 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by H.F. Greeney at Yanayacu Biological Station & Center for Creative Studies in Cosanga, Ecuador, and colleagues was titled, "Trait-mediated trophic cascade creates enemy-free space for nesting hummingbirds." view more 

Credit: [Credit: Photo: Harold F. Greeney, Yanayacu Biological Station]


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