How it works
How does a hummingbird's tongue lift nectar, and where were the oldest hummingbird fossils found? These hummingbird trivia questions and answers fill five rounds.
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Five rounds, from Trochilidae to the Nazca Lines
Names, kinds and fossils digs up a hummingbird in Germany. Wings, feathers and senses traces a figure 8 and counts the cones of the eye. Nectar, tongue and energy times a lick and borrows the umami receptor. Nests, songs and journeys follows the rufous hummingbird up the Pacific flyway. Flowers, places and people ends in Vancouver, Trinidad and the Andes.
For a garden club or a porch in feeder season
The card asks, you pick, and it tells you straight away: correct or not, the reason in a sentence, the article to look it up in. Play in tens, or switch to Scored round and see twenty marks at the finish.
Questions and answers
How fast do a hummingbird's wings beat?
It depends on the species. The giant hummingbird may beat its wings only 12 times a second, while typical hummingbirds reach 80 beats a second.
What do hummingbirds eat?
Mostly flower nectar. By mass the diet is roughly 90 percent nectar and 10 percent arthropods, and one bird may call at a thousand or two thousand flowers in a day.
Where do hummingbirds live?
Only in the Americas. They range from south-central Alaska down to Tierra del Fuego and across the Caribbean, and most species live in the tropics and subtropics of Central and South America.
How were the answers checked?
Each was read on October 3, 2026 in the English Wikipedia article Hummingbird, linked under every question. Species counts, population figures, records of single banded birds and feeder recipes are left out.