Fastest Things on Wings: Rescuing Hummingbirds in Hollywood

by Terry Masear

Book Overview

A heartwarming account of the trials and triumphs a hummingbird rehabber encounters while caring for her tiny, fragile patients

Before he collided with a limousine, Gabriel, an Anna's hummingbird with a head and throat cloaked in iridescent magenta feathers, could spiral 130 feet in the air, dive 60 miles per hour in a courtship display, hover, and fly backward. When he arrived in rehab caked in road grime, he was so badly injured that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0544416031
• ISBN13: 9780544416031
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.4"