World's Fastest Flyer Is a Hummingbird?

Monday, June 15, 2009 - 13:07 in Biology & Nature

If size matters, the male Anna's hummingbird is faster than a peregrine falcon, moving like a "magenta fireball" at 385 times his own body length a second, new research reveals. With video.

Read the whole article on National Geographic

More from National Geographic

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net