.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... We have all heard the phrase he or she “eats like a bird.” This usually implies a very small appetite. This could not be further from the truth for birds. If you “ate like a bird” you would eat more than 25 pizzas a day. Birds’ high metabolism and high body temperature use a lot of energy, which means, they need a lot of food. Birds spend most of the daylight hours foraging and consuming food. The Golden-crowned kinglet for example, is a very small bird at only 4 inches long. Kinglets eat mainly insects and need about 8 calories per day. This doesn’t sound like much, but in a human comparison, this would equate to over 60,000 calories per day. The larger American robin can consume up to 14 feet of worms a day.