Animals on the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica
The tiny Hummingbirds (Colibris) command a range of superlatives: they possess the highest metabolic rates known in the avian world, and they are able to fly backwards and sideways.
For their fast-paced lifestyle they need a continuous supply of flower nectar as a high-energy food, but they do also eat insects and small spiders to obtain proteins. Hummingbirds are invaluable as pollinators, especially of Costa Rica's wide range of Heliconias.
We ue to call the Blue-Gray Tanagers banana birds because pairs of them instantly show up as soon as we put a banana on the feeding place. They like many kinds of fruit and berries.