Angus Burton came to school today and announced that he thinks his dog could make the GUINESS BOOK OF RECORDS for DEATH DEFYING DIVES. This is all because he has been reading about ANNA’S HUMMINGBIRD that lives in THE AMERICAN SOUTH WEST. When this hummingbird is IN LOVE it can MOVE FASTER THAN A FIGHTER JET! It is only FOUR INCHES LONG and can take on a falcon, a swallow and a JET WITH ITS AFTERBURNERS ON AND WIN.
ANNA’S HUMMINGBIRD, Angus says, can cover 383 times the length of its own body in one second at the maximum speed of its display dive and is EVEN FASTER THAN THE SPACE SHUTTLE on re entry to the earth’s atmosphere. It drinks HIGH ENERGY NECTAR while HOVERING OVER FLOWERS and he is KEEN TO GET SOME FOR HIS DOG HENRY VIII. The bird does this DEATH DEFYING DIVE to ATTRACT A MATE and Angus says that his dog always DOES DEATH DEFYING DIVES when he chases a RED SETTER called ANNE BOELYN round the park.
ANNA HUMMINGBIRD has the QUICKEST AERIAL MANOEURVRE IN THE NATURAL WORLD COMPARED TO ITS SIZE. ANGUS thinks his dog is UNIQUE IN HIS FIELD TOO. Miss Piggott thinks Angus may be MISGUIDED but she thinks he has LEARNED SOME VALUABLE SCIENCE from his LATEST INTEREST.