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

On perched bird, wing patch shows only as a thin white line along the leading ... and from southern Florida south through Central America to Panama. Breeding: nest is a fragile platform of twigs ...

Swallow-tailed kites flash overhead in Florida during the spring months as they hunt just above the tree canopies.

A hummingbird chick in Panama mimics a poisonous caterpillar to avoid predators—a rare case of bird-to-insect mimicry. When ...

Great horned owls are adaptable birds and live from the Arctic to South America. They are at home in suburbia as well as in woods and farmlands. Northern populations migrate in winter, but most ...