Assertion: hummingbird | /r/CapableOf | beat their wings
Facets:
value: faster
type: MANNER
value: in order to hover
type: PURPOSE
value: in direct flight
type: MANNER
value: around 70 times per second
type: TEMPORAL
value: rapidly
type: MANNER
value: from 200
type: TEMPORAL
value: depending on the species
type: OTHER
value: faster than
type: MANNER
value: to stay
type: PURPOSE
value: in a figure-eight pattern
type: MANNER
value: more slowly than do
type: MANNER
value: during a courtship dive
type: TEMPORAL
value: asynchronously
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Do Hummingbirds Beat Their Wings?
text: A hummingbird can beat its wings 70 to 80 beats per second.
text: The hummingbird is the only bird that can hover indefinitely and fly backwards beating it's wings 70 to 80 beats per minute.
text: Some Hummingbirds Can Beat Their Wings 80x
text: Hummingbirds can fly sixty miles per hour, beating their wings sixty to eighty beats per second.
text: During a courtship dive they beat their wings two hundred times per second.
text: Further, when raindrops collectively may weigh as much as 38% of the bird's body weight, hummingbirds shift their bodies and tails horizontally, beat their wings faster, and reduce their wings' angle of motion when flying in heavy rain.
text: Hummingbirds, as many of you may know, can beat their wings more than 80 times per second.
text: In fact, the larger hummingbirds appear to beat their wings more slowly than do other birds of comparable size.
text: Further, when raindrops collectively may weigh as much as 38% of the bird's body weight, hummingbirds shift their bodies and tails horizontally, beat their wings faster, and reduce their wings' angle of motion when flying in heavy rain.
text: Hummingbirds, with their iridescent colors and fairly short wings, beat their wings as fast as 80 times per second!
text: They can beat their wings in a figure-eight pattern, which makes them the only vertebrates capable of sustained hovering.
text: Hummingbirds can beat their wings asynchronously, which enables them to rotate and change direction instantly.
text: Hummingbirds beat their wings from 8-200 times per second.
text: Smaller hummingbirds beat their wings faster to stay aloft because of a smaller surface area to support their weight.
text: Hummingbirds that are diving also beat their wings faster than in typical, level flight.
text: Hummingbirds beat their wings rapidly.
text: They are known as hummingbirds because of the distinct humming sound they make when they are beating their wings.
text: Hummingbirds beat their wings 15-80 times every second (depending on the species) meaning that the hummingbird has the incredible ability to hover in the air.
text: Hummingbirds also hover, or hang in one place while beating their wings.
text: Hummingbirds beat their wings about eight to 200 times per second.
text: They can beat their wings from 20 to 200 times per second.
text: Hummingbirds beat their wings at a rate of 40-80 per second and fly 30 miles per hour.
text: Hummingbirds beat their wings so rapidly they can fly forward, backward, and even hover in place.
text: Hummingbirds beat their wings up to 80 times a second, which creates the soft humming sound that earns them their name [source: National Geographic].
text: Hummingbirds beat their wings 1,000 times a minute.
text: A hummingbird beats its wings around 70 times per second in direct flight and over 200 times per second while diving.
text: In order to hover, the hummingbird has to beat its wings 60 times per second.