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    Hummingbirds are very small birds found in the Americas that are known for their high-frequency wing beats that create a humming sound. They are the smallest bird species and can hover in place by flapping their wings extremely quickly, from 12 beats per second up to over 80 beats per second. Hummingbirds have an incredibly fast metabolism that allows them to fly at high speeds to gather nectar, but they can slow their metabolism to conserve energy when food is scarce or at night.

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    Hummingbirds are very small birds found in the Americas that are known for their high-frequency wing beats that create a humming sound. They are the smallest bird species and can hover in place by flapping their wings extremely quickly, from 12 beats per second up to over 80 beats per second. Hummingbirds have an incredibly fast metabolism that allows them to fly at high speeds to gather nectar, but they can slow their metabolism to conserve energy when food is scarce or at night.

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    Hummingbirds are very small birds found in the Americas that are known for their high-frequency wing beats that create a humming sound. They are the smallest bird species and can hover in place by flapping their wings extremely quickly, from 12 beats per second up to over 80 beats per second. Hummingbirds have an incredibly fast metabolism that allows them to fly at high speeds to gather nectar, but they can slow their metabolism to conserve energy when food is scarce or at night.

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    Hummingbirds

    Hummingbirds are birds from the Americas that constitute the family Trochilidae. They are
    among the smallest of birds, most species measuring 7.513 cm (35 in) in length. Indeed, the
    smallest extant bird species is a hummingbird, the 5 cm (2.0 in) bee hummingbird weighing
    less than 2.0 g (0.07 oz).

    They are known as hummingbirds because of the humming sound created by their beating
    wings which flap at high frequencies audible to humans. They hover in mid-air at rapid wing-
    flapping rates, which vary from around 12 beats per second in the largest species, to in excess
    of 80 in some of the smallest. Of those species that have been measured in wind tunnels, their
    top speed exceeds 15 m/s (54 km/h; 34 mph) and some species can dive at speeds in excess of
    22 m/s.[1][2]

    Hummingbirds have the highest metabolism of any homeothermic animal.[3] To conserve


    energy when food is scarce, and nightly when not foraging, they can go into torpor, a state
    similar to hibernation, slowing metabolic rate to 1/15th of its normal rate.[4]

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