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Hummingbird Facts and Insights

The document provides a series of questions and answers about hummingbirds, covering their feeding habits, species, behaviors, and ecological roles. It highlights unique characteristics such as their ability to hover and fly backwards, as well as their feeding frequency and nesting behaviors. Additionally, it mentions threats to hummingbirds, including predation and endangerment of certain species.

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Hummingbird Facts and Insights

The document provides a series of questions and answers about hummingbirds, covering their feeding habits, species, behaviors, and ecological roles. It highlights unique characteristics such as their ability to hover and fly backwards, as well as their feeding frequency and nesting behaviors. Additionally, it mentions threats to hummingbirds, including predation and endangerment of certain species.

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A: 50 - 200 bps Q: How fast do

or 3,000 – the wings of a


12,000 beats hummingbird
per minute! beat per second?

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A: Rufous Q: What species of
hummingbird hummingbird has
been documented
flying over the
Pacific Ocean?

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Q: What is it called when
A: Torpor hummingbirds lower
their body temperature at
night, thereby lowering
their metabolism to
conserve energy?
A: Nectar, Q: What do
insects, and hummingbirds
small spiders. eat?
A: Only in the Q: Where are
Americas, which hummingbirds
are in the Western found in the
Hemisphere. World?
A: They help Q: What is an
pollinate important
flowers. ecosystem
service that
hummingbirds
provide?
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A: Hummingbirds Q: What is
are the only bird something very
that can hover and special about how
fly backwards and hummingbirds fly?
upside down!

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A: On average, 500-600 Q: How fast does a
bpm!
(In comparison, the hummingbird’s
average human’s heart beat per
heartbeat is 60-100 minute?
bpm.)

Photo by Richard Beban Photo by Richard Beban


Q: What are the two
Female Anna’[Link] Male Anna’s-Photo by Don Sterba most common
hummingbird
species we see on
Female Allen’s-Photo by Marilyn Bernstein Male Allen’s-Photo by Richard Beban
the LMU campus?
A. Anna’s and Allen’s. Hummingbirds at the Gottlieb Native Garden
A: Two. Q: How many
eggs does a
hummingbird lay
on average?
A: Yes! They prefer Q: Do
very shallow, hummingbirds
moving water, or a need water to
light spray mist. drink and bathe?

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A: No. This Q: Do the tubular
discourages flowers that
insects from hummingbirds get
feeding from them nectar from have a
too! scent or fragrance ?
A: Every 15 Q: How often do
minutes! hummingbirds
have to feed?

Hummingbirds at the Gottlieb Native Garden

Hummingbirds at the Gottlieb Native Garden


Q: On average, how
many flower
A: 1000!
blossoms might a
hummingbird feed
from each day?
A: Yes! And, you
Q: Will hummingbirds
can put out that migrate return to
nesting material the same feeding and
and feeders to nesting locations each
keep them coming year?
back!
A: Yes. So, never Q: Will
remove a nest from a
tree or bush, because hummingbirds
it could be reused by reuse the same
the same or a
different
nest?
hummingbird.
A: No.
Q: Will
Hummingbirds are hummingbirds
not cavity nesters, so nest or roost in
they will never nest in
a bird house or bird houses?
roosting box.
A: No. For example, Q: Do all
there is a sub-species
of Allen’s
hummingbirds
hummingbirds in migrate?
California that stay
year-round.
Q: What are
A: Cats, larger birds, some predators
snakes, squirrels,
praying mantids, and of
others. hummingbirds?
A: Yes, 34 Q: Of the 342
species are hummingbird
endangered. species, are any
endangered?

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