Hummingbirds: The Bodybuilders in Your Backyard!

Get ready for a dose of awe and wonder! With lightning-fast speeds, an off-the-charts competitive nature, and beak-jousting skills that top Olympic fencers, hummingbirds are truly one of nature’s flying marvels.

Ready to find more wonder and awe right in your own backyard? A creature with giant pectoral muscles, a huge heart, a voracious appetite, and vicious tendencies lives among us. No, it’s not an apex predator, it’s the world’s tiniest bird! What hummingbirds lack in size, they make up for in some fascinating adaptations you may not know about.

By Sam Burns