Stray Feathers From a Bird Man's Desk
Austin L. Rand
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Canadian zoologist, Austin L. Rand, takes a divergence from his scholarly works on ornithology to give us 60 entertaining sketches of bird life and lore from Birds Bathing to Courtship Feeding.
From the author's introduction: "In looking back over the preparation of these sketches I feel as though each evening I'd gathered up the bits and pieces left over from the day's work and fashioned them into designs for my own amusement and the edification of my family. Truly it's as though I'd used stray feathers, fallen from the bird skins I'd handled, and fitted them together into something of wider interest than the original.. . . . This series of articles is intended to be interesting and entertaining." - Summary by Larry Wilson (5 hr 16 min)
Chapitres
| Introduction | 6:16 | Lu par Larry Wilson |
| Birds Using Tools | 6:37 | Lu par Tom Merritt |
| Birds as Brigands | 5:15 | Lu par Tom Merritt |
| Birds Bathing | 5:29 | Lu par Tom Merritt |
| How Birds Anoint Their Feathers | 4:33 | Lu par Tom Merritt |
| Traveling Birds' Nests | 4:56 | Lu par Tom Merritt |
| Maladaptation in Birds | 5:52 | Lu par Tom Merritt |
| Feathered Baby Sitters and Co-op Nursery Nests | 4:30 | Lu par ChristineO |
| Birds' Nests and Their Soup | 6:29 | Lu par docdlmartin |
| Walled Wives of Hornbills | 4:57 | Lu par BettyB |
| Buried Eggs and Young | 4:28 | Lu par diligentdodo |
| The Snowy Owl as a Trade Index | 3:46 | Lu par Phil Schempf |
| Monkey Birds | 4:59 | Lu par Tom Merritt |
| Bird-Made Incubators | 4:50 | Lu par Jared Shaw |
| Cormorant Fishing | 5:27 | Lu par Jared Shaw |
| The Shrike's Larder | 4:22 | Lu par Jared Shaw |
| Bird Flavors | 4:05 | Lu par Jared Shaw |
| How Many Feathers Has a Bird? | 4:24 | Lu par Phil Schempf |
| Last Year's Birds' Nests | 6:45 | Lu par Tom Merritt |
| Symbiosis—Animals Living in Mixed Households | 5:30 | Lu par BettyB |
| Bird Apartment Houses | 8:01 | Lu par mleigh |
| Bird Helpers at Nesting Time | 5:06 | Lu par BettyB |
| A Name for a Boat | 5:29 | Lu par Larry Wilson |
| Weavers and Tailors in the Bird World | 5:34 | Lu par mleigh |
| Social Parasites among Birds | 6:03 | Lu par Jared Shaw |
| Fish Eats Bird! | 3:37 | Lu par Lynn Marie |
| Crows Are Smarter Than "Wise" Owls | 4:18 | Lu par Tom Merritt |
| Tame Wild Birds | 5:23 | Lu par docdlmartin |
| Birds as Pilferers | 6:07 | Lu par realisticspeakers |
| Hibernation in Birds | 4:29 | Lu par realisticspeakers |
| Snakeskins in Birds' Nests | 11:20 | Lu par Jared Shaw |
| Co-operation by Birds | 7:23 | Lu par mleigh |
| Watchdogs at the Nest | 4:14 | Lu par Tom Merritt |
| Bird Guides to Honey | 3:46 | Lu par Craig Abbott |
| Oxpeckers | 4:37 | Lu par Tom Merritt |
| Wings in Feeding | 7:13 | Lu par Tom Merritt |
| Instrumental Music of Birds | 5:01 | Lu par Tom Merritt |
| Conditioning in Birds | 6:42 | Lu par Craig Abbott |
| Poisonous Birds | 4:16 | Lu par Craig Abbott |
| Kingfishers on the Telephone | 5:53 | Lu par Tom Merritt |
| On Identifying Sea Serpents | 7:05 | Lu par mleigh |
| Conservation over the Telephone | 5:47 | Lu par mleigh |
| Birds Washing Food | 4:07 | Lu par mleigh |
| How Animal Voices Sound to Foreign Ears | 4:02 | Lu par docdlmartin |
| Sight Identification | 5:45 | Lu par BettyB |
| Green Hunting Jays Turn Blue | 4:16 | Lu par BettyB |
| How Birds Use Cows as Hunting Dogs | 5:56 | Lu par realisticspeakers |
| Early Bird Listing | 4:07 | Lu par mleigh |
| Battle of the Sexes and Its Evolutionary Significance | 5:30 | Lu par realisticspeakers |
| Water in the Desert | 4:33 | Lu par Jared Shaw |
| Bird Graveyards | 4:48 | Lu par Jared Shaw |
| Animal Gardens | 4:07 | Lu par Jared Shaw |
| Dropping Things | 4:35 | Lu par Tom Merritt |
| Learning by Birds | 3:49 | Lu par Lynn Marie |
| Can Birds Count? | 3:45 | Lu par Lynn Marie |
| Courtship Feeding | 3:36 | Lu par Jared Shaw |
| They Turned the Tables | 5:22 | Lu par Jared Shaw |
| Survival of the Unfit | 3:59 | Lu par Tom Merritt |
| Dust and Snow Bathing | 3:57 | Lu par Jared Shaw |
| Decoration in the Home | 4:22 | Lu par Jared Shaw |
| Curiosity in Birds | 4:30 | Lu par Tom Merritt |