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