Hummingbirds

Hummingbirds

Biology

Abstract:

In this paper I talk about hummingbirds and what they like to eat and what they prefer to eat. My wife and I did do a experiment which the facts are provided in this paper. I would have to agree with the hypothesis in this paper.

Hummingbirds

I would like to write this paper on hummingbirds since me and my wife love to watch hummingbirds come to the feeder we provide them with. Hummingbirds according to Defenders of Wildlife (2010) hummingbird’s diet primarily eat flower nectar, tree sap, insects and pollen. I would like to see which of these meals the hummingbird would prefer and how much of each they would eat. When researching this I found a website that gives you how much a hummingbird eats an hour with more and less sugar in the meals. According to hummingbirds.net (1993) when we studied hummingbirds in the laboratory, we found that they, like humans, eat meals. A meal is a relatively quick and large intake of food, which is followed by time when no feeding occurs while the energy that has been consumed is used. In the lab, hummingbird meals are easy to observe because the birds fly from feeders back to a perch, and they do not come back to a feeder until they are ready for their next meal. We have found that when we make the sugar water with more sugar we have less hummingbirds to our feeders then when we make it say 40/1 then we have lot’s more come to our feeder. This has been provin by hummingbirds.net (1993) according to them We were interested to know the sugar concentration, or the amount of sugar dissolved in a volume of water contained in lower nectar. This information would show how natural foods influence hummingbird feeding, and what sugar concentration to mix so hummingbird feeders provide the same food values that hummingbirds get from flower nectar. We found that sugar concentrations differ widely among plant species, so no single sugar-water concentration is representative of all flower nectars that...