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Often brightly coloured hummingbirds are fascinating and beautiful birds learn more about hummingbirds in our expert guide including how fast they beat their wings and where to see in the wild.

 

Hummingbirds are marvels of the sky famed for their unique and impressive flying abilities. They may be the world?s smallest birds but there is no risk of them flying under the radar thanks to their eye-catchingly colourful plumage.

 

Hummingbirds are not found in Europe Asia Australia Africa or Antarctica. Many hummingbirds spend the winter in Central America or Mexico and migrate north to their breeding grounds in the southern United States as early as February and to areas further north later in the spring.

 

Hummingbirds can fly forwards and backwards and even hover in mid-air like tiny helicopters. These miniscule birds have such high metabolisms that to survive they must consume a colossal volume of nectar equivalent in human terms to around 300 pounds in weight of hamburgers a day.

 

Learn about the different types of hummingbirds - including what attracts them what they eat where and how long does they live their predators and more.

 

Hummingbird any of about 320 species of small often brightly colored birds of the family Trochilidae usually placed with the swifts in the order Apodiformes but sometimes separated in their own order Trochiliformes. Learn more about hummingbirds.

 

Noted for long beaks hummingbirds are specialized for feeding on flower nectar but all species also consume small insects. Hummingbirds are known by that name because of the humming sound created by their beating wings which flap at high frequencies audible to other birds and humans.