hummingbirds


 * Common name:** Hummingbird


 * Scientific name:** Selasphorous Rufus

in forested and brushy habitats.
 * Habitat:** mostly in tropical region. Not to cold of a placeRufous hummingbirds are found

River and great lakes. Most might spend winter in Mexico or Central America.
 * Range:** only found in the Americas. Mostly found by the Mississippi


 * Physical characteristics:**

**diet:** Nectar from flowers, sap running from sapsucker drill holes, tiny insects, and sugar water.

**behavior and adaptations:**Hummingbirds are BIG eaters. No animal on earth has a faster metabolism-roughly 100 times that of an elephant. Hummingbirds burn food so fast they often eat 1.5 to 3 times their body weight in food per day! In order to gather enough nectar, hummingbirds must visit hundreds of flowers every day. Just one day of cold temperatures or bad luck finding flowers can mean death.l


 * repodution:** t is not much bigger than a ping pong ball. The female makes the nest with tiny bits of leafy material including little lichens, and weaves it together with spider silk. She builds the nest on a branch in a tree. A hummer will not use a birdhouse. Each egg is the size of a jelly bean, and is white. There are two eggs in a clutch. Ruby-throats incubate for 11 - 16 days unbtil the eggs hatch. Rufous hummers incubate for 15 - 17 days.Ruby-throats weigh 0.62 grams when they hatch. This means 3 just hatched hummers would weigh less than one American dime.


 * relationship to people:** Is not domesticated. Is like most birds


 * status:** Picture windows, and deforestation on their wintering and breeding grounds and migratory pathway are probably the biggest dangers.

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 * history:** came from a different type of birds