Alejandro Rico-Guevara

Hidden complexity of hummingbird chirps (WNPR, July 2014)

An entire song in a single chirp (Broadcasted nationally on NPR, August 2014)

En garde! Hummingbirds sword fight with their bills (Science Magazine News, November 2014)

The evolution of an angry bird (UConn today, October 2014)

Hummingbirds use their beaks as weapons (Discovery News, November 2014)

Can Hummingbirds snore? (Audubon News, March 2015)

Hummingbird tongues are way weirder than we thought (The Washington Post, August 2015)

Hummingbird’s tongue works like a micropump (Discovery News, August 2015)

Hummingbird tongues are tiny pumps (Science Magazine News, August 2015)

Hummingbirds stab with dagger-tipped bills (Science News, November 2014)

Hummingbird tongues act like tiny pumps (Discover Magazine, August 2015)

Hummingbirds sip using mini pumps (Nature, August 2015)

The Hummingbird’s Tongue: How it Works (New York Times, September 2015)

OTS Outstanding Student Paper Award (Organization for Tropical Studies, February 2016)

Pitelka Award for Excellence in Research (International Society for Behavioral Ecology, August 2016)

Honorable Mention - National Science Awards (Colombia), Fundación Alejandro Ángel Escobar (August 2016)

Super Hummingbirds documentary featuring our research (PBS, November 2016 - Watch on YouTube here)

How Hummingbirds Do It (March 2017)

A unique tongue to fuel for flight (Nat Geo, July 2017)

Rethinking camera traps for the small, fast, and elusive (September 2017)

All about hummingbirds (Meadowlark Herald, October 2015)

Links before 2014

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New York Times - Science

NPR (Science Friday)

Discover Magazine

Our triggering system is at the top! Check out: 10 top conservation tech innovations from 2017 (January 2018)

Departmental seminar at Yale EEB department (March 2018)

9 Photographs That Have Made History, check # 7 (National Geographic, January 2018)

Deciphering hummingbird's enigma [in Spanish] (BBC Mundo, February 2018)

Departmental seminar at Universidad Javeriana (Julio 2018)

Departmental seminar at the Dept. of Biology, University of San Francisco (October 2018)

Invited seminar at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley (November 2018)

Departmental seminar at the Dept. of Biological Sciences, California State University San Marcos (November 2018)

IB Department newsletter featured postdoc, UC Berkeley

Feisty hummingbirds prioritize fencing over feeding (PhysOrg, January 2019)

Hummingbirds are evolving ‘weaponized’ beaks with teeth for fighting (Fox News, January 2019)

Some Hummingbirds Evolved Bills That Make Them Better at Fighting—but Worse at Feeding (Smithsonian Magazine, January 2019)

Departmental seminar at the Department of Biology, University of Washington (January 2019)

UC Research Shows Hummingbirds Fight for Nookie not Nectar (KQED-FM, NPR, February 2019)

The Hummingbird as Warrior (New York Times- in print, cover of weekly Science Times section, February 2019)

Making Science Vivid With Video (The New York Times- in print, Science Take series, February 2019)

Departmental seminar at the Dept. of Biological Sciences, San José State University (April 2019)

Departmental seminar at the Dept. of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming (April 2019)

Hummingbirds, feathered fighters (CBS News, Feb 2019)

Feisty feeding for flowers foments fighting: a tale of the hummingbird bill (IOB Blog, January 2019)

Hummingbirds That Fence With Their Bills (Seeker [video], January 2019)

Watch How Hummingbird Hackers Keep Up With Their Quick, Tiny Subjects (Audubon News, April 2019)

It started in middle school... Scholastic MATH Magazine (September 2019)

Invited speaker at the University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley (October 2019)

Departmental seminar at the Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Dept. at UC Santa Cruz (November 2019)

Invited speaker along with Kristiina Hurme at Mt. Diablo Audubon Society (November 2019)

Our (with Patrick Green) symposium “Physical Mechanisms of Behavior” for SICB 2021 was accepted! (December 2019)

Instructor at the workshop Stability vs. Change: Identifying the Key Questions in Animal Physiology (March 2020)

2nd most popular National Geographic photograph of the decade! Go Anand! (January 2020)

Departmental seminar at the Dept. of Zoology at the University of British Columbia (March 2020)