Hummingbirds navigate an ultraviolet world we never see

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Ultraviolet (UV) light from the Sun creates colors throughout the natural world that are never seen by people. But researchers working out of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that untrained broad-tailed hummingbirds can use these co

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Selasphorus platycercus