Beautiful Birds: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Beautiful Birds, credited to Edmund Selous, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Beautiful Birds by Edmund Selous. Read in English by Scotty Smith; Natalia Cichy; jenno; lectora5; RPBrevard; Elsie Selwyn In this volume, Edmund Selous explains the beauty of birds to children. We meet some of the most beautiful birds in the world, and learn about their lives. We also learn what to do when our mothers decide to wear hats with stuffed birds on them! - Summary by Carolin

Recording facts

• Recording title: Beautiful Birds
• Author credits: Edmund Selous
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 5:19:40

Catalogue topics

• children
• non-fiction
• 1901
• birds
• teach
• explanation
• 2019
• learn

Track guide

1. 01 - Why Beautiful Birds are Killed — 31:10
2. 02 - Birds of Paradise — 25:21
3. 03 - The Great Bird of Paradise — 32:09
4. 04 - The Red Bird of Paradise — 20:15
5. 05 - The Lesser, Black, Blue, and Golden Birds of Paradise — 33:42
6. 06 - About all Birds of Paradise, and some Explanations — 22:53
7. 07 - About Humming-Birds, and some more Explanations — 23:59
8. 08 - Some very Bright Humming-Birds — 34:48
9. 09 - Hermit Humming-Birds and Two Other Ones — 18:55
10. 10 - The Cock-of-the-Rock and the Lyre-Bird — 25:35
11. 11 - The Resplendent Trogon and the Argus Pheasant — 25:37
12. 12 - White Egrets, 'Ospreys', and Ostrich-Feathers — 25:16

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