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always wondered of the nutritional value of these, left out by people with good intentions, but probably doing more harm than good with those empty calories
Hummingbirds need all the calories they can get. Their calorie requirements per mass are somewhere in the realm of 50x greater than a human's.
i am aware, but sugar water in 100% calories and no protein, essential fats, vitamins or minerals, whatsoever
Biology is different for lots of different creatures. Just because we need certain things in our diet doesn't mean birds need those same things in the same quantities from the same sources. We are, after all, quite different from birds.