Hummingbirds

It's so hard to capture these little guys on camera, but I will keep trying...

I often wondered, How fast do hummingbird wings beat?

It depends on the size of the bird. The largest, the Giant Hummingbird, has a wingbeat rate of 10-15 per second. The fastest recorded rate was about 80 per second, on a tiny Amethyst Woodstar, and the slightly smaller Bee Hummingbird - the world's smallest bird - may have an even faster rate. Common small North American hummers like the Rufous and these Ruby-throated average around 53 per second in normal flight.