The Burgess Bird Book for Children: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Burgess Bird Book for Children, credited to Thornton W. Burgess, 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 The Burgess Bird Book for Children, by Thornton W. Burgess. The Burgess Bird Book for Children is a zoology book written in the form of a story featuring Peter Rabbit. Peter learns from his friend Jenny Wren all about the birds of North America, and we meet many of them in the Old Orchard, the Green Meadow, and the Green Forest.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Burgess Bird Book for Children
• Author credits: Thornton W. Burgess
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 46
• Listed recording duration: 7:28:17

Catalogue topics

• children
• zoology
• birds
• biology
• conservation
• Peter Rabbit
• Burgess

Opening tracks: first 24 of 46

1. 00 - Preface — 2:33
2. 01 - Jenny Wren Arrives — 9:00
3. 02 - The Old Orchard Bully — 10:02
4. 03 - Jenny Has a Good Word for Some Sparrows — 9:18
5. 04 - Chippy, Sweetvoice, and Dotty — 10:36
6. 05 - Peter Learns Something He Hadn't Guessed — 11:24
7. 06 - An Old Friend In A New Home — 10:14
8. 07 - The Watchman of the Old Orchard — 9:42
9. 08 - Old Clothes and Old Houses — 8:48
10. 09 - Longbill and Teeter — 9:24
11. 10 - Redwing and Yellow Wing — 8:58
12. 11 - Drummers and Carpenters — 9:21
13. 12 - Some Unlikely Relatives — 10:54
14. 13 - More of the Blackbird Family — 9:46
15. 14 - Bob White and Carol the Meadow Lark — 10:14
16. 15 - A Swallow and One Who Isn't — 8:30
17. 16 - A Robber in the Old Orchard — 9:12
18. 17 - More Robbers — 11:20
19. 18 - Some Homes in the Green Forest — 10:37
20. 19 - A Maker of Thunder and a Friend in Black — 12:26
21. 20 - A Fisherman Robbed — 10:03
22. 21 - A Fishing Party — 10:42
23. 22 - Some Feathered Diggers — 13:01
24. 23 - Some Big Mouths — 9:46

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