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Our Feathered Friends

Joseph Grinnell, Elizabeth Grinnell

Read by Larry Wilson, Sue Gill, Stacy Dugan-Wilcox, mleigh, MaybeCordelia, Andrea Kotzer, SmilingJade, Colleen McMahon, Samikshaya Ananthakrishnan, BettyB and briannag · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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Introduction (5:41)
The Message of a Mocking-bird (5:08)
Some People We Like to Know (5:57)
Civilized Birds (5:31)
How Birds Dress (6:12)
How Madam Bird Combs Her Hair (8:06)
What Birds Carry in Their Pockets (10:36)
Child Birds (5:01)
How Baby Birds are Fed (5:39)
At Meal-time (7:47)
Seed-eaters and Meat-eaters (7:37)
Some Birds with a Bad Name (10:31)
Before Breakfast (7:45)
Our Birds' Restaurant—Meals at All Hours (9:30)
Umbrellas and Other Things (10:33)
Cradle Making (5:07)
Our Screech Owl (6:23)
Birds at Work and Play (6:28)
Some Other Birds at Work (8:59)
A Pet Humming-bird (4:35)
How We Took the Humming-birds' Pictures (7:20)
Our Robin Redbreast (7:08)
More about Our Robin (9:19)
Going to Bed and Getting Up (8:01)
Mrs. Towhee Proposes a Garden Party (7:06)
At the Garden Party (7:45)
Our Bird Hospital (4:30)
A Splendid Collection (4:43)