Hummingbirds' Gift by Sy Montgomery

From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Soul of an Octopus, a perfect gem of a book about those most exquisite and extraordinary of winged creatures—hummingbirds.

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The lightest birds in the sky, hummingbirds are capable of astonishing feats, such as flying backward, diving at speeds of sixty-one miles per hour, and beating their wings more than sixty times a second. Miraculous creatures, hummingbirds are also incredibly vulnerable when they first emerge from their eggs. That's where Brenda Sherburn La Belle comes in.

With tenderness and patience, she rescues abandoned hummingbirds and nurses them back to health until they can fly away and live in the wild. In The Hummingbirds' Gift, the extraordinary care that Brenda provides her peanut-sized patients is revealed and, in the process, we discover just how truly amazing hummingbirds are. Sy Montgomery, one of the most acclaimed chroniclers of the natural world working today, joyfully celebrates the profound gift that hummingbirds are to our planet.