Suzie Gilbert
Auteur de Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings
A propos de l'auteur
Suzie Gilbert lives in New York State's Hudson Valley, where she launched Flyaway, Inc., in 2002. She is also the author of the children's book Hawk Hill.
Crédit image: photo by John Huba
Œuvres de Suzie Gilbert
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- female
- Lieux de résidence
- Oyster Bay, New York, USA
- Courte biographie
- [excerpt from author's website]
A trip to the Hudson Valley Raptor Center sparked her love of wild birds. During her 11 years of working at the sanctuary, she created their newsletter, authored the children's book Hawk Hill (Chronicle Books), and wrote the Taconic News Media environmental column, "Bird's Eye View".
After leaving the raptor center, she opened Flyaway, Inc., a home-based all-species wild bird rehab nonprofit. She chronicled those tumultuous years of rehabbing and raising her children in the best-selling memoir Flyaway: How a Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings (HarperCollins). She wrote the wild bird rehabilitation blog The Crooked Wing, then joined the global birding site 10,000 Birds.
Wanting to bring the world of wildlife rehabilitation to a general audience, she wrote the comic, suspenseful road trip novel Unflappable - an award-winning story of two millennials who attempt to smuggle a stolen Bald Eagle from Key West to Ontario via an underground railroad of wildlife rescuers.
Membres
Critiques
As a former rehabber I thoroughly enjoyed this book. A quick read, funny and poignant.
An amazing memoir by a woman who loves all wild birds: songbirds, hawks, ducks, herons. This is the story of her passion turned life's work as she become a "rehabber" while also married and raising young children. Her compassion and skill are evident, and yet she struggles with saying yes and no to the demands of this life. Highly readable, informative and inspiring.
Flyaway is an entertaining read that hurtles you into the hectic, nearly overwhelming, daily world of wildlife rehabilitation. Gilbert lays bare her demons so readers can understand the unique rehabber view of the world. And it is a unique worldview that values and feels compelled to save and safeguard every creature; regardless of how feasible or foolhardy that may be in each case. Knowing many rehabbers from the outside doesn't match hearing one explain the compulsion from the inside.
Prix et récompenses
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 93
- Popularité
- #200,859
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 6
- ISBN
- 7
In addition to being terrific with birds (and her kids) she's is a great writer. Example... in this passage she is describing a visit to her"flight", a large enclosed habitat where birds live until they are strong enough to be released. The flight is divided into two sections so she can separate species that may not get along together. In this case she is leaving the section where the songbirds are recuperating to check on the other side. "Next door things were not so genteel. If the songbird flight was an English drawing room, jay/grackle flight was the local pub: noisy, boisterous, and full of outsized personalities looking house trouble."
It's not all fun. The author shares her strong opinions on how people are the greatest threat to birds. If you have an outdoor cat be prepared for a tongue-lashing.… (plus d'informations)