Hummingbirds spend most of their waking hours eating—sometimes visiting as many as a thousand blooms a day. Every 24 hours, they drink several times their weight in water. Click on the icons below to learn where hummingbirds live, what they eat, how they hunt and how they reproduce. You can even pet a hummingbird in Zoobooks Virtual Zoo!

Hummingbirds fly like little helicopters. They can hover, move from side to side, go straight up, straight down, and even backwards. They do all this by rotating each wing in a circle, which is similar to the way a helicopter flies. Because they can maneuver so well around other birds, they have no fear of predators. These feisty little birds will even attack eagles if their babies are in danger—and they are not too shy to pluck fuzz off our sweaters to build their nests.