Our Feathered Friends: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Our Feathered Friends, credited to Elizabeth Grinnell; Joseph Grinnell, 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 Our Feathered Friends by Elizabeth Grinnell; Joseph Grinnell. Read in English by Larry Wilson; Sue Gill; Stacy Dugan-Wilcox; mleigh; MaybeCordelia; Andrea Kotzer; SmilingJade; Colleen McMahon; Samikshaya Ananthakrishnan; BettyB; briannag 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

Recording facts

• Recording title: Our Feathered Friends
• Author credits: Elizabeth Grinnell; Joseph Grinnell
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 28
• Listed recording duration: 3:18:58

Catalogue topics

• nature
• birding
• ornithology
• bird
• Natural History
• oriole
• flicker
• owl

Opening tracks: first 24 of 28

1. 00 - Introduction — 5:41
2. 01 - The Message of a Mocking-bird — 5:08
3. 02 - Some People We Like to Know — 5:57
4. 03 - Civilized Birds — 5:31
5. 04 - How Birds Dress — 6:12
6. 05 - How Madam Bird Combs Her Hair — 8:06
7. 06 - What Birds Carry in Their Pockets — 10:36
8. 07 - Child Birds — 5:01
9. 08 - How Baby Birds are Fed — 5:39
10. 09 - At Meal-time — 7:47
11. 10 - Seed-eaters and Meat-eaters — 7:37
12. 11 - Some Birds with a Bad Name — 10:31
13. 12 - Before Breakfast — 7:45
14. 13 - Our Birds' Restaurant—Meals at All Hours — 9:30
15. 14 - Umbrellas and Other Things — 10:33
16. 15 - Cradle Making — 5:07
17. 16 - Our Screech Owl — 6:23
18. 17 - Birds at Work and Play — 6:28
19. 18 - Some Other Birds at Work — 8:59
20. 19 - A Pet Humming-bird — 4:35
21. 20 - How We Took the Humming-birds' Pictures — 7:20
22. 21 - Our Robin Redbreast — 7:08
23. 22 - More about Our Robin — 9:19
24. 23 - Going to Bed and Getting Up — 8:01

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