Can humming birds walk or hop like other birds do?
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Most hummingbird's feet and legs are so small that they cannot walk or even hop; hummingbirds mostly use their legs and feet for perching (but the toes and claws are very long, and are used for perching). Hummingbirds are almost helpless on the ground.
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Technically they CAN fly, but only for a few seconds. They much prefer to run (..at speeds up to 17 mph). The roadrunner is also known as the Chaparral and is the state bird of New Mexico.
989909
They can. But ants don't really walk to a destination the way we do. Most of the time they walk in a zig zag pattern leaving behind them a trail of scent back to their hole. Once they've found a food source they go back to the hole leaving behind them a different scent that other ants will pick up on and then they go to the food as well. Once a few ants start going to and from the food source from the hole all the ants around will just run back and forth bringing home the food, that's when you'll see ants running fairly straight.
1008368
With legs, they usually walk.  \n\nElsewise, they fly, crawl, or swim.\n\nDuh.
610952
Birds hear a lot better than we do, and worms moving around in soil make noise that is distinctive. OR, maybe they have Xray vision! :-)
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Yes, if that is the direction they are flying. If the wind changes direction though they don't change. So not ALL the time as the question implies.
442150
It depends on where you live.  Here in SE Michigan, we start seeing them in early May.  I always put my hummingbird feeder out on May 1 in case any come back early, especially if it is a mild spring.
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Absolutely not.  They are warm-blooded creatures capable of maintaining an internal body temperature.  If birds were cold-blooded, you can bet that penguins and non-migratory birds would be in deep trouble when exposed to low temperatures!
888903
Bats or rats; better find out.\n\nPS Clicking is how their radar works, but we are speaking of vocalizations, not radar ( echolocation, to be precise ), and bats do vocalize.
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My pet Emu -Larry- says you are mistaken. In reality birds do not fly. See, you were outside, enjoying a lovely day when you stumbled upon a group of kids playing in the park. What you saw was nothing more than a fowl ball.
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One word answers are not possible. If your teacher wants single word answers she is a moron.\n\nBirds, snakes and humans breathe using lungs.\n\nFrogs breathe using their skin and their gills when they are young and using their skin and lungs as adults.\n\nFish breathe using their skin and gills and also commonly use their swim bladder, mouth and stomach to breathe with.\n\nThe same applies to movement. Humans can move by walking or climbing or swimming or riding or driving or a bazillion other methods.\n\nFrogs and snakes may swim, or walk or hop or burrow or climb depending on the species and where it is.\n\nBirds may swim or fly or walk or hop or burrow or climb depending on the species and where it is.\n\nThere simply are no single word answers to these questions.
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Although hummingbird migration is not well documented by large numbers of banding records, we do know a few facts, and we can draw logical inferences about some of the unknown areas.\n\nCLICK LINK BELOW FOR FULL DETAILS:
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I don't know if there's a proven fact if animals could laugh but I'm sure they could as well as any human beings.\n Just as we could teach our pets certain things, so are wild animals have their own kind of communication on how to survive from predators and who knows one of them might be laughter. Seems like some birds do know how to laugh too.
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The hummingbird will start moving backwards because the plane is accelerating and unless the bird is moving forward, the bird's inertia will have it attempting to stay in place which is moving backwards.\n\nBut if you're talking about a non-accelerating plane that is moving at a constant velocity then the bird will stay in place.
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MINE WOULD BE A HUMMING BIRD WITH AN  ATTITUDE :>
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It is hard-wired into their brains but the younger birds start out by following their parents south and if birds are taken out of the wild at a young age and have never migrated a small glider type plane can be flown the the birds will follow so it can be learned too.
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I'm not going to give you some useless chickadee facts.  If you are asking about the flight pattern, I assume you already know what one looks like and where it lives.  So I'll cut to the chase.  Regarding how the chickadee flies, it "rolls."  It flaps a few wingbeats and then brings its wings close to its body and allows itself to fall through the air like a torpedo, riding the momentum.  It then starts flapping its wings again.  Then falling, then flapping, then falling, then flapping.   This kind of flight acts to greatly conserve energy.  As far as migration patterns, they are fairly non-migratory in the States, sometimes ranging further south in the colder months and further north in warmer months.