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He hummingbird giant of the Andes, about the same length as a cardinal, flies at 12 beats per second. He hummingbird bee Cubathe world’s smallest bird at just 2 inches from the tip of its beak to the tip of its tail, hums at 80 beats per second.
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The smaller the hummingbird is, the faster it flies and the more times it flaps its wings per second.
The advent of high-speed motion photography has allowed scientists to precisely measure and study wing movements that are too fast for the human eye to see. The hummingbirds They flap their wings approximately 10 to more than 80 times per second while fluttering.
They flap their wings even faster during the courtship display dives used by males of some species. Furthermore, the hummingbirds They can fly very fast, usually reaching speeds of 20 to 30 miles per hour. They triple that speed during those incredible courtship display dives.
What are the fastest hummingbirds?
The hummingbirds The fastest ones fly extremely fast. Christopher James Clarkwho has conducted extensive research on hummingbirds in the Berkeley Universitydiscovered that during their courtship, the hummingbird male of Anna folds its wings to the sides. It reaches an average maximum speed of approximately 30 meters per second.
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The male Anna’s hummingbird is the fastest vertebrate according to its size.
This is the highest speed ever recorded for a vertebrate, relative to size. Even more incredible, as it rises, with wings spread, the bird experiences centripetal accelerations almost nine times greater than gravitational acceleration.
In summary, the hummingbirds They can fly faster than a fighter jet, relative to their size. They can withstand g forces that would make the average person faint.
The hummingbirds They are also flutter experts, the strategy used by most species to feed on flower nectar. They can also fly backwards and even, for brief moments, upside down.