How big are its eggs?

About the size of a coffee bean

Bee Hummingbird Quiz: Cuba's Tiniest Bird in the World

This bee hummingbird quiz shrinks down to the world's smallest bird in the forests of Cuba. Play 10 interactive questions on a bird about 5 to 6 cm long weighing around 2 grams, eggs the size of coffee beans, cobweb nests, a racing heart, visits to many flowers each day, the male's iridescent head and why it is often mistaken for a bee.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

Country
Where does the bee hummingbird live?
Record
What record does it hold?
Length
About how long is it?
Weight
About how much does it weigh?
Egg
How big are its eggs?
Nest
What holds its tiny nest together?
Heart
How fast can its heart beat?
Food
What does it feed on?
Male
What color is the male's head in breeding season?
Mistake
What is it often mistaken for?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: Where does the bee hummingbird live?
Answer: Cuba
It lives nowhere else.
Q2: What record does it hold?
Answer: Smallest bird in the world
It is barely bigger than a bee.
Q3: About how long is it?
Answer: About 5 to 6 cm
Females are slightly larger.
Q4: About how much does it weigh?
Answer: Around 2 grams
Less than a coin.
Q5: How big are its eggs?
Answer: About the size of a coffee bean
Clutches have two eggs.
Q6: What holds its tiny nest together?
Answer: Cobwebs
Lichen camouflages it.
Q7: How fast can its heart beat?
Answer: Over 1,000 times a minute
It burns energy fast.
Q8: What does it feed on?
Answer: Flower nectar and tiny insects
It visits many flowers a day.
Q9: What color is the male's head in breeding season?
Answer: Iridescent pinkish red
It shimmers in sunlight.
Q10: What is it often mistaken for?
Answer: A bee
Hence its name.

The World's Tiniest Bird

The bee hummingbird lives only in Cuba and is the smallest bird in the world. It is about 5 to 6 cm long and weighs around 2 grams, less than a coin, and is often mistaken for a bee as it zips between flowers.

Its heart can beat over 1,000 times a minute, and it burns energy so fast that it visits many flowers each day for nectar, also catching tiny insects for protein. In breeding season, the male's head and throat shimmer an iridescent pinkish red.

The female builds a tiny cup nest held together with cobwebs and camouflaged with lichen. She lays two eggs about the size of coffee beans. Forest loss is a growing threat to this tiny bird.

What This Quiz Teaches

Bird fans will enjoy these questions.

Where it lives
How small it is
How it gets energy
How it nests
Why it is named after a bee

Did You Know?

Wings beat many times per second.
It can hover in place.
Females raise chicks alone.
Zapata Swamp is a good place to see it.
Its tongue laps up nectar.