In Haiti we regularly saw the second smallest bird in the world, the Vervain Hummingbird, which I wrote about here. But this bird, the Bee Hummingbird, is the smallest. It lives in Cuba. How I would love to see it!
The video says that a Bee Hummingbird may visit a thousand flowers in a day, so I had to look up how many a honeybee visits. Up to seven thousand! So Bee Hummingbirds are not quite as busy as actual bees. The video also says that these birds can be prey for spiders, but I read elsewhere that they eat spiders too. The circle of life!
Not quite as busy as a bee,
Bee Hummingbirds buzz busily,
Visiting in a single day
A thousand flowers on their way
For energetic food to eat:
A thousand flowers full of sweet.
©Ruth Bowen Hersey
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