Hope you guys are doing well. Allah Almighty created different types of animals, birds and insects in this universe apart from humans. Some of these birds are so beautiful that even seeing them again and again does not fill the heart. One of these beautiful birds, today I will tell you about a bird that is very beautiful and is considered one of the smallest birds in the world, the name of this bird is Humming bird.
This bird is the best reflection of nature's beautiful creation, when the sun's rays directly touch its wings, the sky is decorated with beautiful colors. The average length of the male bird is 5.5 cm and weight is up to 1.95 grams, while the length of the female bird is 6.1 cm and the weight is up to 2.6 grams. The female humming bird is more beautiful in appearance than its male counterpart.
The climate of Cuba is very suitable and suitable for their breeding, and therefore the most birds are found here. They are found in Cuba and some surrounding areas with more than three hundred species. One type is called the Bee humming bird because it is slightly larger than a bee. Other species are generally larger in size than this species though, but that too is less than seven centimeters. Bee Humming birds weight less than two grams, measured from the tip of the beak to the tip of the tail. Most of these small-sized birds are found in Cuba, North America and Alaska due to its unique climate.
Researches:
Some time ago, scientists did a lot of research on the smallness of humming birds. Some experts believed that animals in any given evolutionary region could have gradually shrunk over millions of years due to food shortages, climate change, and resource depletion. The common food of humming birds is the juice of flowers and this is probably the reason why nature has designed the beak structure of these birds in such a way that they are rich in the ability to suck the juice of flowers even while hanging in the air.
Meanwhile, nature has endowed these birds with the ability to flap their wings 200 times within a second. The most striking feature of the humming bird is its extremely rapid flapping of wings, which experts have been researching for a long time. According to scientists, the heart of this bird is very big and powerful in proportion to its body. Because a large heart sends more blood to the body, humming birds flap their wings faster and hover in the air like a helicopter. This process requires a lot of energy.
Experts examined 915 birds and noted their size and heart volume. Among these birds, whose hearts were smaller in proportion to their bodies, they flew a short distance, whereas birds with faster flapping wings and longer flights were found to have slightly larger hearts. Scientists have revealed that the heart of this bird is three percent larger than the rest of the birds.
Because these birds have to travel long distances frequently due to their small size, due to which they need a lot of glucose. The source of which can be better than the juice of flowers. They also love to eat different types of insects. During the flight, as their energy is constantly low, due to which they also feel hungry, for which they have to stop and eat something every ten minutes. Due to which this bird naturally never suffers from nutritional deficiency.
According to the scientific experts, since the metabolic rate and body heat are also absent in them, due to which they have the ability to fly at a speed of about thirty to forty kilometers per hour.
Experts say that they need the juice of about fifteen hundred flowers a day to survive.
According to experts, the maximum age of the hummingbird is seven years, while experts are also expressing the danger that the survival of this bird is facing many threats due to the rapidly changing climates on the planet.
Although these birds build nests like normal birds, in terms of size, the nests of these birds are much smaller than those of normal birds, which are made in a circle about the diameter of a tennis ball. The nests of these birds are said to be the smallest nests in the world and their eggs are also said to be the smallest eggs in the world.
The humming bird is the world's smallest migratory bird and the only bird that can fly backwards. This bird has no sense of smell while their eyesight is very sharp. This bird is considered to be a fearless and brave bird by nature, that's why in case of danger, it resists the attacker.
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