Ruby Throated Hummingbirds

Hummingbirds are one of the cutest and cuddliest birds in the world. Many people think the last thing hummingbirds would be named after is what type of noise they make. The reason people really call them hummingbirds is because their wings can beat up to seventy-five times per second, but a ruby throated-hummingbird can beat its wings up to 700 times per second, and therefore they are known as hummingbirds. The wings then create a humming …

…hummingbirds can hover in the air long enough to get nectar from a flower. Hummingbirds fly up to twenty-seven miles per hour. Most of the baby hummingbirds learn to fly in 21 months. I chose the ruby-throated hummingbird because I wanted to study this topic; I am quite interested in birds. I wanted to know how big the hummingbird is and how many feathers it has. Not only that, but how the hummingbird got it name?