This is Birdnaught.

There used to be a saying about somebody who doesn't eat much.

She eats like a bird, just a little of this and a smidgen of that.

But how much does a bird typically eat?

And how much would you have to eat to match it?

Well, depends on the bird.

As a rule of thumb, the smaller the bird, the more food it needs relative to its weight.

A Cooper's Hawk, a medium-sized bird that hunts other birds, eats around 12% of its weight per day.

For you, if you weigh, say 150 pounds, that's 18 pounds of chow, roughly 6 extra large pizzas.

That perky little chickadee flitten back and forth for sunflower seeds from your feeder eats the equivalent of 35% of its weight.

You, as a 150-pound chickadee, will be munching 600 granola bars a day.

And a tiny hummingbird?

It drinks about 100% of its body weight per day.

That means you'll be sipping 17 and a half gallons of milk.

Prefer wine or beer? 18 gallons.

If it's warm outside, you can probably get by on a bit less.

But if it's cold, you'll need more, so you'd best dock up.

For bird note, I'm Mary McCann.