250,000 calories a day?
If we burned calories like a hummingbird, that's how many calories we'd need each day, according to the LA Times. They consume about 66 to 120 calories a day (some sites say about 100 times as much, but they misplaced the decimal point). Fortunately hummingbirds weigh less than an ounce! I think they can be forgiven for trying to save energy by not hovering at each blossom.
250,000 calories a day?
If we burned calories like a hummingbird, that's how many calories we'd need each day, according to the LA Times. They consume about 66 to 120 calories a day (some sites say about 100 times as much, but they misplaced the decimal point). Fortunately hummingbirds weigh less than an ounce! I think they can be forgiven for trying to save energy by not hovering at each blossom.