Mark Cocker

A hymn to the hummingbird — one of the most astonishing organisms on Earth

How anything weighing the same as a 1p coin can make an annual two-way migration of 7,000 miles is nothing short of miraculous, says Jon Dunn

A male Costa’s Hummingbird. Credit: Alamy
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    Bloomsbury, pp. 228, £20

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