Stray Feathers From a Bird Man's Desk
Austin L. Rand
Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
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)
Kapitel
| Introduction | 6:16 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Birds Using Tools | 6:37 | Gelesen von Tom Merritt |
| Birds as Brigands | 5:15 | Gelesen von Tom Merritt |
| Birds Bathing | 5:29 | Gelesen von Tom Merritt |
| How Birds Anoint Their Feathers | 4:33 | Gelesen von Tom Merritt |
| Traveling Birds' Nests | 4:56 | Gelesen von Tom Merritt |
| Maladaptation in Birds | 5:52 | Gelesen von Tom Merritt |
| Feathered Baby Sitters and Co-op Nursery Nests | 4:30 | Gelesen von ChristineO |
| Birds' Nests and Their Soup | 6:29 | Gelesen von docdlmartin |
| Walled Wives of Hornbills | 4:57 | Gelesen von BettyB |
| Buried Eggs and Young | 4:28 | Gelesen von diligentdodo |
| The Snowy Owl as a Trade Index | 3:46 | Gelesen von Phil Schempf |
| Monkey Birds | 4:59 | Gelesen von Tom Merritt |
| Bird-Made Incubators | 4:50 | Gelesen von Jared Shaw |
| Cormorant Fishing | 5:27 | Gelesen von Jared Shaw |
| The Shrike's Larder | 4:22 | Gelesen von Jared Shaw |
| Bird Flavors | 4:05 | Gelesen von Jared Shaw |
| How Many Feathers Has a Bird? | 4:24 | Gelesen von Phil Schempf |
| Last Year's Birds' Nests | 6:45 | Gelesen von Tom Merritt |
| Symbiosis—Animals Living in Mixed Households | 5:30 | Gelesen von BettyB |
| Bird Apartment Houses | 8:01 | Gelesen von mleigh |
| Bird Helpers at Nesting Time | 5:06 | Gelesen von BettyB |
| A Name for a Boat | 5:29 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Weavers and Tailors in the Bird World | 5:34 | Gelesen von mleigh |
| Social Parasites among Birds | 6:03 | Gelesen von Jared Shaw |
| Fish Eats Bird! | 3:37 | Gelesen von Lynn Marie |
| Crows Are Smarter Than "Wise" Owls | 4:18 | Gelesen von Tom Merritt |
| Tame Wild Birds | 5:23 | Gelesen von docdlmartin |
| Birds as Pilferers | 6:07 | Gelesen von realisticspeakers |
| Hibernation in Birds | 4:29 | Gelesen von realisticspeakers |
| Snakeskins in Birds' Nests | 11:20 | Gelesen von Jared Shaw |
| Co-operation by Birds | 7:23 | Gelesen von mleigh |
| Watchdogs at the Nest | 4:14 | Gelesen von Tom Merritt |
| Bird Guides to Honey | 3:46 | Gelesen von Craig Abbott |
| Oxpeckers | 4:37 | Gelesen von Tom Merritt |
| Wings in Feeding | 7:13 | Gelesen von Tom Merritt |
| Instrumental Music of Birds | 5:01 | Gelesen von Tom Merritt |
| Conditioning in Birds | 6:42 | Gelesen von Craig Abbott |
| Poisonous Birds | 4:16 | Gelesen von Craig Abbott |
| Kingfishers on the Telephone | 5:53 | Gelesen von Tom Merritt |
| On Identifying Sea Serpents | 7:05 | Gelesen von mleigh |
| Conservation over the Telephone | 5:47 | Gelesen von mleigh |
| Birds Washing Food | 4:07 | Gelesen von mleigh |
| How Animal Voices Sound to Foreign Ears | 4:02 | Gelesen von docdlmartin |
| Sight Identification | 5:45 | Gelesen von BettyB |
| Green Hunting Jays Turn Blue | 4:16 | Gelesen von BettyB |
| How Birds Use Cows as Hunting Dogs | 5:56 | Gelesen von realisticspeakers |
| Early Bird Listing | 4:07 | Gelesen von mleigh |
| Battle of the Sexes and Its Evolutionary Significance | 5:30 | Gelesen von realisticspeakers |
| Water in the Desert | 4:33 | Gelesen von Jared Shaw |
| Bird Graveyards | 4:48 | Gelesen von Jared Shaw |
| Animal Gardens | 4:07 | Gelesen von Jared Shaw |
| Dropping Things | 4:35 | Gelesen von Tom Merritt |
| Learning by Birds | 3:49 | Gelesen von Lynn Marie |
| Can Birds Count? | 3:45 | Gelesen von Lynn Marie |
| Courtship Feeding | 3:36 | Gelesen von Jared Shaw |
| They Turned the Tables | 5:22 | Gelesen von Jared Shaw |
| Survival of the Unfit | 3:59 | Gelesen von Tom Merritt |
| Dust and Snow Bathing | 3:57 | Gelesen von Jared Shaw |
| Decoration in the Home | 4:22 | Gelesen von Jared Shaw |
| Curiosity in Birds | 4:30 | Gelesen von Tom Merritt |