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A heartwarming consideration of the trials and triumphs a hummingbird rehabber encounters while looking after her tiny, delicate patients. Before he collided with a limousine, Gabriel, an Anna's hummingbird with a brain and neck cloaked in iridescent magenta feathers, could spiral 130 foot in the air, dive 60 kilometers each hour in a courtship screen, hover, and take flight backward. When he arrived in rehabilitation caked in street grime, he was so terribly wounded that he could scarcely perch. But Terry Masear, one of the busiest hummingbird rehabbers in the country, was determined to save lots of this damaged parrot, who looked oddly familiar. During the four months that Terry worked with Gabriel, she required in 160 hummingbirds, from a miniature nestling rescued with a bulldog and a fledgling stuck inside a skydiving wind tunnel at Universal CityWalk to Pepper, a female Anna's injured on a film set. In their time jointly, Pepper and Gabriel made a special relationship, and jointly, with Terry's help, discovered to take flight again. Woven around Gabriel's and Pepper's reports are those of other bright colored parrots in this personal narrative filled up with the research and magic bordering these fascinating creatures.
