Question

How does a hummingbird take in food

Answer 1

Researchers previously thought tube-like channels in their tongues sucked up fluid by capillary action. But the new analysis shows that their tongues actually trap nectar by curling around it.

This study, authored by ornithologists Alejandro Rico-Guevara and
Margaret A. Rubega of the University of Connecticut, was published in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences".

Hummingbirds survive on protein from bugs and are fueled by the nectar!

Many assume that nectar is the key ingredient to a hummingbird's survival because we see them at our feeders constantly seemingly to have a never quenched thirst for the sweet stuff!