But high-speed cameras show us what makes these birds ... “They wanted to know how birds could hover on the spot.” The images showed hummingbirds to be more like bees or flies than like ...

They found that the micro-helicopter's blades are as efficient at hovering as the average hummingbird. But while the micro-copter's blades kept pace with the middle-of-the-pack hummingbird wings ...

Hovering is the birds' third mode of movement. Hummingbirds are incredibly agile in the air. They fly forwards and backwards to move from plant to plant and perch to perch, and they employ the ...