Our Feathered Friends
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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
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| 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 |