Causes and symptoms. Fatigue may be the result of one or more environmental causes such as inadequate rest, improper diet, work and home stressors, or poor physical conditioning, or one symptom of a chronic medical condition or disease process in the body.
1 A hummingbird will use its tongue to lap up nectar from flowers and feeders. 2  A hummingbird's tongue is grooved like the shape of a W. 3  Hummingbirds have tiny hairs on the tip of the tongue to help lap up nectar.
Ruby-throated hummingbirds eat nectar from a variety of different flowering plants, including red buckeye (Aesculus pavia), jewelweed, columbine (Aquilegia canadensis), trumpet creeper (Campsis radicans), red morning-glory (Ipomea coccinea), trumpet- or coral-honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens), fly-honeysuckle (Lonicera canadensis), cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis), catchflies (Silene) and fire-pink (Silene virginica).