Tune out the world and tune into the flutters 🐦✨ With up to 70 wingbeats per second and speeds greater than 30 mph, hummingbirds are tiny forces of nature. | National Geographic Animals

The male wire-crested thorntail hummingbird pulls out all the stops to court his mate. | National Geographic Animals

Three facts about the four-inch Anna's hummingbird? It can lick a flower up to 15 times a second, weighs as much as three almonds and hovers while feeding through its forked tongue. Using high-speed cameras, Explorer @AnandVarmaPhotographer slowed down the mesmerizing movements of this bird 100 times to capture what is normally too fast to see with the naked eye. #NationalHummingbirdDay | National Geographic Society