1. Hummingbirds spend most of their walking hours eating .

2. Sometimes visiting as many as a thousand blooms a day.

3. Every 24 hours they drink survival times their weight in water.

4. Hummingbirds fly like little helicopters.

5. They can hover move from side to side go straight up straight down and even backwards.

1. Hummingbirds are spread through out the Americas from Alaska to the tip of  south America .

2. They are at home in tropical rain forests deserts mountains and plains.

3. Hummingbirds can be found almost anywhere that flowers bloom.

1. A female hummingbird either builds their nest to hang from twigs or saddles it on a tree.

2. She binds together seeds dry flower heads and plant down with the silk from spider webs.

3. In side this nest which is hardly bigger then a quarter.

4. She works hard to care for her chicks.

5. Hummingbirds cover the outside with lichens.

1. For protein hummingbirds eat insects.

2. Mostly how ever they drink the nectar in flowers.

3. They loose body heat very quickly .

4. Hummingbirds must keep eating to replenish their energy.

5. At night they sometimes go into torpor or suspended animation to keep from starving.

 

1. Hummingbirds have unusual tongues.

2. The front half is split and has fringed edges.

3. The fringed area helps the hummingbird capture insects and soak up nectar during rapid licking.

4. Hummingbirds are attracted to the bright colors of flowers especially red.

5. Young hummingbirds often mistake brightly colored objects like stop sings for a food.

1. Hummingbirds need only an undisturbed food source to survive.

2. There future then depends on there habitat not being disturbed.

3. Chances are good that the hummingbirds will always be able to thrive.

4. Especially in mountainous regions.