Hummingbird Coloring Pages

Hummingbird Facts

A little information about these amazing birds!

• 1The hummingbird is the smallest bird and also the smallest of all animals that have a backbone.
• 2A hummingbird has no sense of smell
• 3Because a hummingbird can rotate its wings in a circle, they are the only bird that can fly forwards, backwards, up, down ,sideways and hover in mid air.
• 4To conserve energy while they sleep or when food is scarce, they can go into a hibernation-like state (torpor) where their metabolic rate is slowed to 1/15th of its normal rate.
• 5During migration, some hummingbirds make a non-stop 500 mile flight over the Gulf of Mexico.
• 6During courtship dives a hummingbird can reach speeds up to 60 miles per hour and can average speeds of 20 to 30 miles per hour.
• 7Hummingbirds are the second largest family of birds with 343 species.
• 8Hummingbirds can beat their wings up to 80 times a second during normal flight and up to 200 times per second during a courtship dive.
• 9A hummingbird has a heart rate that can reach up to 1,260 beats per minute.