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Woman cares for dozens of hummingbirds in apartment-turned-clinic

Catia Lattouf has become a reference source for bird lovers, amateur and professional alike, across Mexico and other parts of Latin America.

By Associated Press

Aug. 8, 2023

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A hummingbird approaches a feeder hanging in the bedroom of Catia Lattouf who has turned her apartment into a makeshift clinic for the tiny birds, in Mexico City, Monday, Aug. 7.
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Catia Lattouf poses for a photo with hummingbirds in her care, in her apartment that she has turned into a makeshift clinic for the tiny birds, in Mexico City, Monday, Aug. 7.
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A hummingbird hovers inside the home of Catia Lattouf that she has turned into a makeshift clinic for the tiny birds, in Mexico City, Monday, Aug. 7. Most of the hummingbirds she cares for are housed in the bedroom where Lattouf sleeps. They stay there until they are strong enough to fly and feed themselves. Then she moves them to a neighboring room to prepare them to eventually be freed.
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Cecilia Santos uses an eyedropper to feed a hummingbird in the home of Catia Lattouf who has turned her apartment into a makeshift clinic for the tiny birds, in Mexico City, Monday, Aug. 7.
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Cecilia Santos uses an eyedropper to feed a hummingbird in the home of Catia Lattouf who has turned her apartment into a clinic for the tiny birds, in Mexico City, Monday, Aug. 7. Lattouf with Santos, who she calls the “hummingbird nanny,” care for the birds in long days that stretch from 5 a.m. into the night.
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Catia Lattouf evaluates a baby hummingbird that was rescued after falling from its nest and brought to her apartment, now a makeshift clinic, in Mexico City, Monday, Aug. 7. “Most come to me as babies. Many come to me broken,” she said, describing injuries to wings after colliding with things or falling from nests.
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A hummingbird drinks nectar from a feeder hanging from framed art work protected by plastic, in the home of Catia Lattouf who has turned her apartment into a clinic for the tiny birds, in Mexico City, Monday, Aug. 7.
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Catia Lattouf evaluates a baby hummingbird that was rescued after falling from its nest and brought to her apartment, now a makeshift clinic, in Mexico City, Monday, Aug. 7.
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Catia Lattouf thanks a young man for bringing her a baby hummingbird he rescued, as her collaborator Cecilia Santos feeds a charm of hummingbirds in the background, in her apartment that she has turned into a makeshift clinic for the tiny birds, in Mexico City, Monday, Aug. 7.
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Catia Lattouf, left, speaks with Marcelo Brito about the baby hummingbird he found in his garden, in her apartment, now a makeshift clinic where over the past decade she has nursed hundreds of the tiny birds back to health, in Mexico City, Monday, Aug. 7.

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