That may sound surprising when you consider the mobility of these tiny buzz birds. With jet-like speed they can fly forward and backward, shoot directly up or dive rapidly and even hover in one place.

Hummingbirds, whose supreme hovering ability is the key to their survival by allowing them to feed in mid-air on the nectar in flowers, may have a "glitch" in that ability the tiny birds cannot ...

That may sound surprising when you consider the mobility of these tiny buzz birds. With jet-like speed they can fly forward and backward, shoot directly up or dive rapidly and even hover in one place.