From
hawks to hummingbirds, avians have some enormous appetites.
November
19, 2018
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Transcript:
This is
BirdNote.
There used to be a saying about somebody who doesn’t eat much — “she eats like a bird.” Just a little of this and a smidgen of that. But how much does a bird typically eat? And how much would you have to eat to match it? Well, depends on the bird.
There used to be a saying about somebody who doesn’t eat much — “she eats like a bird.” Just a little of this and a smidgen of that. But how much does a bird typically eat? And how much would you have to eat to match it? Well, depends on the bird.
As a rule
of thumb, the smaller the bird, the more food it needs relative to its weight.
A Cooper’s Hawk, a medium-sized bird that hunts other birds, eats around 12
percent of its weight per day. For you, if you weigh … say … 150 pounds,
that’s 18 pounds of chow — roughly six extra-large pizzas.
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