In Mexico City, a Woman's Apartment Turned Clinic Provided Care for Sick and Young Hummingbirds
An elderly woman in Mexico City has welcomed ill, injured, orphaned hummingbirds into her home for the past ten years after she overcame colon cancer. Dozens of them are still alive and well today, flying around her apartment as she tends to their medical needs. After videos of her caring for 60 hummingbirds on any given day went viral on TikTok, she was hired as the neighborhood's go-to nanny. Dozens of the tiny birds buzzed above, along walls, and out her bedroom window as she started taking care of them a year after beating colon cancer in 2011. One hummingbird with an eye injury from another bird was the first in the situation. Read this story filled with the intensive amount of care for animals in this particular article! Twelve years ago, a Mexican woman named Lattouf took in an injured hummingbird while still grieving for her husband and getting over her own dangerously close call with death from colon cancer. The little creature had lost an eye in a struggle with a larger, feathered bully. The bird, which Lattouf named Gucci after the designer eyeglasses case she kept him in, ended up being her savior.With a broken voice, Lattouf recalled, "There were times I didn't want to play but he would fly to my head and my shoulder, or sit in front of me." It was a manifestation of love for her . After years of patient study, Lattouf—who is 73 years old—became the go-to expert for hummingbird enthusiasts throughout Latin America. Since then, her house has been transformed into a makeshift clinic for ailing, injured, or young hummingbirds.She frequently tends to several dozen of these important pollinators at once, and plans are underway to establish a foundation to educate the upcoming generation of hummingbird whisperers. That being said, while many of them do make it back to the wild, those that pass away while in Lattouf's care are interred between tiny plants close to her building.Hummingbirds face numerous threats in the city itself. Apart from the incessant construction projects that replace flower gardens with concrete, there are the sleek black grackles that prey on birds and destroy their nests.However, Lattouf is not giving up and is placing a wager that more birdwatchers will plant flowers to support the large pollinators. She declared, "Nothing is guaranteed." "I think life is given by God and taken by God, but we make every effort to live."
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