| Only the Ruby-Throated Hummingbirds is found in West Virginia! Diet of Nectar and insects and lifespan 5 to 10 years, weight size about 2.0 grams and migrating thousands of miles each year. |
During spring, ruby-throated hummingbirds breed throughout eastern North America including West Virginia and migrate south in the early fall through Texas and northern Mexico to winter in Central America the ruby-throated travel more than 1,500 miles. Ruby-throated hummingbird constant feeding on a variety of brightly-colored plants especially red flowers plants, in addition to plants, small insects on foliage and in flight. Ruby-throated hummingbird consume about one-half of their body weight in food each day. At times, Praying Mantis capture the ruby-throated hummingbird and feed on them! Nests are small cup of plant fibers, number of broods one, sometimes two, and fledging period about 22 days (ready to fly). 
 Hummingbirds are most attracted to red flowers.
Hummingbirds any of numerous New World birds,with a long, slender bill, of the family Trochilidae, usually very small and colorful bird, having brilliant, iridescent plumage, and wings capable of beating about 50 to 90 times per second., thereby enabling the bird to hover and the only birds capable of flying backwards. Hummingbird at night they lapse into a state of mental or physical inactivity similar to hibernation (to be in an inactive or dormant state at night.)
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