Secrets of hummingbird flight revealed with slow-motion cameras

Hummingbirds zip around at dizzying speeds through our gardens on their hunt for nectar. How do they navigate such tight spaces? New UC Berkeley research has uncovered two of their tricks.
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🤓 The study can be found here: journals.biolo...
🧠 The work was funded primarily by a CiBER-IGERT grant from the National Science Foundation (DGE-0903711).
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[@fr9714]

I don’t have facts about them but they’re cute and awesome and I have a few coming in backyard yearly. I got a feeder for them and put nice sugar water and now they sit and feed daily and go away. Beautiful and brings me joy just to watch them

[@ioamador]

My favorite hummingbird fact is that, in the tropics, there are mites that live in flowers and they use the birds to disperse by running up the beak while the bird is feeding, and running down it at a subsequent flower.

[@Some-Guy-]

Would love to see this same video but about ten minutes long

[@robyns3767]

so you're saying hummingbirds think we're their pizza delivery? it all makes sense now ...

[@BriggityBroocE]

The amount of G forces male Anna's can can withstand when doing their mating dance swoop is amazing. I believe it is 9+gs. And all with a body the weight of a nickle.