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Hummingbird specimens measured at the Moore Lab of Zoology at Occidental College. Photo by Luz E. Zamudio.
04 August 2020

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A Story About a “Gem”: The Rivoli’s Hummingbird, Eugenes fulgens

However, I have developed a particular affinity for hummingbirds, thanks to their colorful feathers, incredible physiology, and graceful behaviors.

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A hybrid hummingbird captured in Happy Camp, California. Photo by Brian Myers.
17 September 2019

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Researchers Identify Previously Unknown Hybrid Zone Between Hummingbird Species

We usually think of a species as being reproductively isolated – that is, not mating with other species in the wild. Occasionally, however, closely related species do interbreed. New research …

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A female Blue-throated Starfrontlet. Photo by Santiago Rosado Hidalgo.
05 September 2019

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Chasing Evolutionary Processes in Andean Coeligena Hummingbirds

I am lucky that one of the species of hummingbird I study, the Blue-throated Starfrontlet (Coeligena helianthea), occurs on my university’s campus in the mountains of Bogotá, Colombia.

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A Wedge-tailed Sabrewing. Photo by Clementina González.
13 June 2019

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Studying “Song Neighborhoods” Within Sabrewing Leks

About 25 years ago, I started a research position at the Instituto de Ecología AC in Veracruz, Mexico. During my first explorations of the cloud forest there, I heard the marvelous sound that eventually became a key part of my work and that of my assistant Clementina González.

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