"It would be enough to only mention the obvious:
--the incredible speed at which this tiny bird flaps its wings.
--When hovering, the wings beat at 50–80 flaps per second, even increasing to as many as 200 during a short courtship chase.
--They utilize a figure-8 pattern, you might say ‘treading air’, in which the wings flap forward and backward, generating lift with both motions (75% on the forward stroke and 25% on the back stroke). --This is very unlike the ‘up and down’ motion of most birds with typical airfoil wings. This unique ability to hover precisely in one position, and fly backwards or take off vertically, was not completely understood until recently. Although wing speed seems to make their wings disappear, high-speed video cameras were able to capture the intricacy of this flapping pattern.
The ultra-flexibility of the hummingbird’s unique wing strokes requires a very specialized
design—not just of the bones, muscles, and tendons but also of the brain and nervous system controlling them.
The flexibility of the shoulder joint is a unique design, allowing the wing to twist into extreme positions not found in other birds. However, unlike the wing structure of all other birds, the ‘elbow’ and ‘wrist’ joints are rigid, making the wing more like a stiff paddle. The relatively huge breast muscles that manipulate the rapid wing flaps represent a massive 40% of the bird’s total weight.
Even the hummingbird’s tongue used to gather this nectar (more than its body weight, in a mind-boggling number of sips per day) is such a complex design that it seems difficult to conceive how it could ever be explained by slow and gradual steps as required by evolution.
Until 2010, most biologists believed the hummingbird tongue operated by simple capillary action, like ‘wicking’. However, biologists from the University of Connecticut discovered that the tongue works more like a micropump.
The evolutionary explanation of slow, step-by-step addition and modification of these components over millions of years also fails to explain the way these birds’ design has solved a daunting challenge presented by the laws of physics. You see, the blindingly fast flapping and twisting motion of the wing structure generates an incredible amount of friction, and thus, heat (in addition to that of muscle metabolism)." CMI
And God created ...every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:21
--the incredible speed at which this tiny bird flaps its wings.
--When hovering, the wings beat at 50–80 flaps per second, even increasing to as many as 200 during a short courtship chase.
--They utilize a figure-8 pattern, you might say ‘treading air’, in which the wings flap forward and backward, generating lift with both motions (75% on the forward stroke and 25% on the back stroke). --This is very unlike the ‘up and down’ motion of most birds with typical airfoil wings. This unique ability to hover precisely in one position, and fly backwards or take off vertically, was not completely understood until recently. Although wing speed seems to make their wings disappear, high-speed video cameras were able to capture the intricacy of this flapping pattern.
The ultra-flexibility of the hummingbird’s unique wing strokes requires a very specialized
The flexibility of the shoulder joint is a unique design, allowing the wing to twist into extreme positions not found in other birds. However, unlike the wing structure of all other birds, the ‘elbow’ and ‘wrist’ joints are rigid, making the wing more like a stiff paddle. The relatively huge breast muscles that manipulate the rapid wing flaps represent a massive 40% of the bird’s total weight.
Even the hummingbird’s tongue used to gather this nectar (more than its body weight, in a mind-boggling number of sips per day) is such a complex design that it seems difficult to conceive how it could ever be explained by slow and gradual steps as required by evolution.
Until 2010, most biologists believed the hummingbird tongue operated by simple capillary action, like ‘wicking’. However, biologists from the University of Connecticut discovered that the tongue works more like a micropump.
The evolutionary explanation of slow, step-by-step addition and modification of these components over millions of years also fails to explain the way these birds’ design has solved a daunting challenge presented by the laws of physics. You see, the blindingly fast flapping and twisting motion of the wing structure generates an incredible amount of friction, and thus, heat (in addition to that of muscle metabolism)." CMI
And God created ...every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:21
