When seated at my desk, I have a nice view of the hills that surround Monterey. I often see hawks and hummingbirds and I marvel at how evolution has created two such different birds, and I do not mean just in terms of their size. It turns out that the fact that they both are seen in the same vicinity near my home is not an accident. What researchers have found is that hummingbirds nest under hawks because that protects them from their main predator, the Mexican Jays.
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