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A Hummingbird Hospital in a Mexico City Apartment

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🗓️ 20 February 2026

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Catia Lattouf cares for dozens of hummingbirds from her home!

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0:00.0

This is Bird Note.

0:05.1

In Mexico City, 73-year-old Katia Latouf started a hummingbird hospital in her apartment.

0:12.1

I have now here almost six species. I have a small one like a bee. It makes z-it-doesn't fly like a hummingbird.

0:20.2

He's a Mexican.

0:21.4

The bumblebee hummingbirds?

0:22.8

Yeah.

0:23.3

Either flying across a bedroom to a large window or resting over the dry tree branches,

0:28.0

Katia carefully placed on the corners, there are more hummingbirds than most people have ever seen together.

0:34.7

Now I have 82, expecting one more.

0:38.3

Katya says people bring her mostly injured baby birds.

0:41.3

Larger animals attack them while they're vulnerable in their nests.

0:45.3

People find them, compassionate people, and they bring them to me.

0:49.3

So how did Katya, who once ran a French high fashion boutique, start caring for injured hummingbirds.

0:55.9

It began in 2012, after she survived cancer that was considered terminal.

1:01.2

She received her first injured hummingbird and named him Gucci.

1:05.2

Sometimes he was here and I was depressed.

1:08.5

He stayed on my shoulder, on my head.

1:13.1

No, Gucci. I don't want to play now.

1:19.2

Please leave me alone. And he used to stay in front of me, looking at me, like saying, pay attention to me. I didn't understand at the time until he dies nine months later, and it was a new life

1:26.8

written to me, because nine months is the symbol of a new life written to me,

1:27.7

because nine months is the symbol of a new life.

1:30.8

When you have a baby, it's nine months.

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