47+ How Fast Does A Hummingbird's Wings Beat
Pics. Hummingbirds have to eat every couple of minutes. Hummingbirds are busy little birds!
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How fast do hummingbirds fly? The hummingbird heart rate and breathing rate is also very rapid, to support its rapid wing movement. But there's a furnace beneath those feathers.
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The rapid beating of the hummingbirds wings (60 to 80 beats per second) makes the distinctive humming sound from which they get their name. The hummingbird's heart beats about 250 times per minute — that's 4 times per second. The beat their wings at up to 80 times per second (wikipedia). Did you know that at night, they enter tupor which means they do not flap their wings, they rotate them in a figure 8, which makes it even more remarkable!
