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Suzie Gilbert discovered her true calling when she began working at a local animal hospital. Eventually, she started bringing abused and unwanted parrots home, and volunteering at a local raptor rehabilitation center. From there it was a short flight to her ultimate commitment: Flyaway, Inc., the nonprofit wild bird rehabilitation center she ran out of her own home. With heart and delightful wit, Gilbert chronicles daily life in her household-cum-bird-hospital, and recounts the resulting chaos as she, her husband, and their two young children struggled to live in a home where parrots shrieked Motown songs and recuperating herons took over the spare bathroom. Flyaway is a remarkable story of compassion for and dedication to beautiful creatures—and the importance of pursuing even the most unlikely of dreams.
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Flyaway, Suzie Gilbert, Carl Zimmer
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- Released
- 2010
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- Title
- Flyaway
- Subtitle
- How a Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Suzie Gilbert, Carl Zimmer
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Released
- 2010
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 340
- ISBN10
- 0061563137
- ISBN13
- 9780061563133
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, True Stories, Biographies, Nature, Animals, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Biographies, Birds
- Rating
- 4.35 out of 5
- Description
- Suzie Gilbert discovered her true calling when she began working at a local animal hospital. Eventually, she started bringing abused and unwanted parrots home, and volunteering at a local raptor rehabilitation center. From there it was a short flight to her ultimate commitment: Flyaway, Inc., the nonprofit wild bird rehabilitation center she ran out of her own home. With heart and delightful wit, Gilbert chronicles daily life in her household-cum-bird-hospital, and recounts the resulting chaos as she, her husband, and their two young children struggled to live in a home where parrots shrieked Motown songs and recuperating herons took over the spare bathroom. Flyaway is a remarkable story of compassion for and dedication to beautiful creatures—and the importance of pursuing even the most unlikely of dreams.