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A hummingbird has a few adaptations. It has a very small body and is lightweight because its wings move so fast and takes up a lot of energy. Also, their beaks are long and skinny to make it easier for them to drink nectar while still in motion.

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Adaptations That Help Hummingbirds SurviveBackground

Every species is unique, even if it has close relatives. And every species lives only in certain places in the world. Some species, like Mallards, are generalists that can survive in many kinds of habitats eating a wide variety of food--Mallards are found on every continent except Antarctica. Other species, like the Nene (also called the Hawaiian Goose) are specialists,living in a more restricted range with special dietary or habitat requirements--Nene's feed on berries and grasses on Hawaiian islands. They have very little webbing between their toes, an adaptation for walking on jagged volcanic rock

Rufous and Ruby-throated Hummingbirds are both specialists AND generalists! They migrate and nest over a broad geographical range like generalists. They mostly eat nectar and tiny insects, like specialists, but can branch out to take sap from sapsucker drill holes and can even eat willow catkins when a sudden cold snap makes other spring foods scarce. Any ornithologist seeing a hummingbird for the first time could instantly guess that this bird eats liquid food from flowers, flies long distances flapping every moment, and has some sort of adaptation for staying alive on freezing nights or cold, rainy days. How? By understanding how bird bodies and behavior are adapted to habitat and food requirements.

In this lesson, we'll look at a hummingbird's body from head to tail tip to see just how this bird is designed precisely for the kind of life it leads. Students will then engage in an activity to see what they'd need to add to their own bodies to live like hummingbirds.

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one of the adaptation is to fly backward and frontwards
it can fly backwards and it can also fly like helicopter

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humming birds adapted by going to a flowers and taking the pollen like bees do.

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the hummingbird has a special type of beak like a straw to suck nectar out of a flowers.

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