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Stray Feathers From a Bird Man's Desk

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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)

Chapters

Introduction

6:16

Read by Larry Wilson

Birds Using Tools

6:37

Read by Tom Merritt

Birds as Brigands

5:15

Read by Tom Merritt

Birds Bathing

5:29

Read by Tom Merritt

How Birds Anoint Their Feathers

4:33

Read by Tom Merritt

Traveling Birds' Nests

4:56

Read by Tom Merritt

Maladaptation in Birds

5:52

Read by Tom Merritt

Feathered Baby Sitters and Co-op Nursery Nests

4:30

Read by ChristineO

Birds' Nests and Their Soup

6:29

Read by docdlmartin

Walled Wives of Hornbills

4:57

Read by BettyB

Buried Eggs and Young

4:28

Read by diligentdodo

The Snowy Owl as a Trade Index

3:46

Read by Phil Schempf

Monkey Birds

4:59

Read by Tom Merritt

Bird-Made Incubators

4:50

Read by Jared Shaw

Cormorant Fishing

5:27

Read by Jared Shaw

The Shrike's Larder

4:22

Read by Jared Shaw

Bird Flavors

4:05

Read by Jared Shaw

How Many Feathers Has a Bird?

4:24

Read by Phil Schempf

Last Year's Birds' Nests

6:45

Read by Tom Merritt

Symbiosis—Animals Living in Mixed Households

5:30

Read by BettyB

Bird Apartment Houses

8:01

Read by mleigh

Bird Helpers at Nesting Time

5:06

Read by BettyB

A Name for a Boat

5:29

Read by Larry Wilson

Weavers and Tailors in the Bird World

5:34

Read by mleigh

Social Parasites among Birds

6:03

Read by Jared Shaw

Fish Eats Bird!

3:37

Read by Lynn Marie

Crows Are Smarter Than "Wise" Owls

4:18

Read by Tom Merritt

Tame Wild Birds

5:23

Read by docdlmartin

Birds as Pilferers

6:07

Read by realisticspeakers

Hibernation in Birds

4:29

Read by realisticspeakers

Snakeskins in Birds' Nests

11:20

Read by Jared Shaw

Co-operation by Birds

7:23

Read by mleigh

Watchdogs at the Nest

4:14

Read by Tom Merritt

Bird Guides to Honey

3:46

Read by Craig Abbott

Oxpeckers

4:37

Read by Tom Merritt

Wings in Feeding

7:13

Read by Tom Merritt

Instrumental Music of Birds

5:01

Read by Tom Merritt

Conditioning in Birds

6:42

Read by Craig Abbott

Poisonous Birds

4:16

Read by Craig Abbott

Kingfishers on the Telephone

5:53

Read by Tom Merritt

On Identifying Sea Serpents

7:05

Read by mleigh

Conservation over the Telephone

5:47

Read by mleigh

Birds Washing Food

4:07

Read by mleigh

How Animal Voices Sound to Foreign Ears

4:02

Read by docdlmartin

Sight Identification

5:45

Read by BettyB

Green Hunting Jays Turn Blue

4:16

Read by BettyB

How Birds Use Cows as Hunting Dogs

5:56

Read by realisticspeakers

Early Bird Listing

4:07

Read by mleigh

Battle of the Sexes and Its Evolutionary Significance

5:30

Read by realisticspeakers

Water in the Desert

4:33

Read by Jared Shaw

Bird Graveyards

4:48

Read by Jared Shaw

Animal Gardens

4:07

Read by Jared Shaw

Dropping Things

4:35

Read by Tom Merritt

Learning by Birds

3:49

Read by Lynn Marie

Can Birds Count?

3:45

Read by Lynn Marie

Courtship Feeding

3:36

Read by Jared Shaw

They Turned the Tables

5:22

Read by Jared Shaw

Survival of the Unfit

3:59

Read by Tom Merritt

Dust and Snow Bathing

3:57

Read by Jared Shaw

Decoration in the Home

4:22

Read by Jared Shaw

Curiosity in Birds

4:30

Read by Tom Merritt