What to read after Hummingbirds: Nature's Tiny Dancers?

Hummingbirds are almost a natural wonder of survival. They seem to deny many of the properties we know about life and nature. They are the smallest birds but have the largest heart and brain in body mass-to-size ratio. Their body metabolism is so fast that they would die if not eating at least every four hours. So, their body metabolism has to slow down every night (called torpor), or else die before sunrise.

Hummingbirds are acrobatic in flight and the only bird to be able to fly backward. They have tremendous memory and recognize every flower visited and when it will be replenished with nectar. Finally, they recognize the faces of people with whom they have interacted. The migratory ones make the long flights alone, having never traveled the route. They dance and flicker and make us smile because they are genuinely Nature’s Tiny Dancers.