Horned Sungem

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No bird flaps its wings faster than the horned sungem. This South American bird can achieve 90 wingbeats per second when its hovering to drink nectar from rainforest flowers. A wingbeat is one complete up-and-down movement, which means that the horned sungem moves its wing muscles at a rate of more than 10,000 times per minute.

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