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More than half the nectar a
hummingbird drinks is sugar. FAST FACTS
Sugar makes up 10 per cent of cola,
so to ingest the same ratio of sugar to There are more than 300
body weight, a person would have species of hummingbird,
to drink 250 litres (66 gallons). all native to the Americas.
An
adult would
have to gulp
750 cans of cola The rufous
hummingbird
a day to get a migrates up
hummingbird’s to 4,828 km
sugar fix. (3,000 miles),
from Alaska
to Mexico.
The Cuban bee
hummingbird
is the world’s
smallest bird.
At 5.7 cm
(2¼ in) long,
it can perch
on a pencil.
Life-size
How much nectar do
hummingbirds drink?
A hummingbird drinks one-and-a-half times
its weight in sugary nectar a day. To slurp
as much sugar for their size, a person would
have to drink a can of cola every two minutes.
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