Our Feathered Friends
Elizabeth Grinnell
Leído por LibriVox Volunteers
This volume displays the romance of birds in beautiful prose and dialog in simple language for children and adults alike. Written by a mother and son team of naturalists, chapters describe various aspects of the life and habits of birds highlighting specific birds from owls to hummingbirds. From the introduction:
“Seek the children, little book: Bid them love the bird's retreat . . . Bid them find their secrets out, How to understand their words.”
- Summary by Larry Wilson (3 hr 18 min)
Capítulos
| Introduction | 5:41 | Leído por Larry Wilson |
| The Message of a Mocking-bird | 5:08 | Leído por Sue Gill |
| Some People We Like to Know | 5:57 | Leído por Stacy Dugan-Wilcox |
| Civilized Birds | 5:31 | Leído por Stacy Dugan-Wilcox |
| How Birds Dress | 6:12 | Leído por Stacy Dugan-Wilcox |
| How Madam Bird Combs Her Hair | 8:06 | Leído por mleigh |
| What Birds Carry in Their Pockets | 10:36 | Leído por mleigh |
| Child Birds | 5:01 | Leído por MaybeCordelia |
| How Baby Birds are Fed | 5:39 | Leído por MaybeCordelia |
| At Meal-time | 7:47 | Leído por Andrea Kotzer |
| Seed-eaters and Meat-eaters | 7:37 | Leído por SmilingJade |
| Some Birds with a Bad Name | 10:31 | Leído por SmilingJade |
| Before Breakfast | 7:45 | Leído por SmilingJade |
| Our Birds' Restaurant—Meals at All Hours | 9:30 | Leído por SmilingJade |
| Umbrellas and Other Things | 10:33 | Leído por SmilingJade |
| Cradle Making | 5:07 | Leído por MaybeCordelia |
| Our Screech Owl | 6:23 | Leído por Colleen McMahon |
| Birds at Work and Play | 6:28 | Leído por Colleen McMahon |
| Some Other Birds at Work | 8:59 | Leído por Colleen McMahon |
| A Pet Humming-bird | 4:35 | Leído por Samikshaya Ananthakrishnan |
| How We Took the Humming-birds' Pictures | 7:20 | Leído por MaybeCordelia |
| Our Robin Redbreast | 7:08 | Leído por Sue Gill |
| More about Our Robin | 9:19 | Leído por Sue Gill |
| Going to Bed and Getting Up | 8:01 | Leído por BettyB |
| Mrs. Towhee Proposes a Garden Party | 7:06 | Leído por briannag |
| At the Garden Party | 7:45 | Leído por MaybeCordelia |
| Our Bird Hospital | 4:30 | Leído por BettyB |
| A Splendid Collection | 4:43 | Leído por Larry Wilson |