The Woodpeckers: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Woodpeckers, credited to Fannie Hardy Eckstorm, 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 Woodpeckers, by Fannie Hardy Eckstorm. Read by Laura Victoria. The Woodpeckers is a wonderful introduction to the world of bird study for the young naturalist, covering such topics as how he finds food, courting, how he builds his nest, the interesting ways he uses his different body parts as tools, among other topics discussed in the book. If you wish to investigate further, the book has a few diagrams and an Appendix that contains more technical information such as detailed descriptions of the different species of North American woodpeckers which were not read as part of this audiobook. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35062 (summary by Laura Victoria)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Woodpeckers
• Author credits: Fannie Hardy Eckstorm
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 2:22:36

Catalogue topics

• birds
• non-fiction
• woodpeckers

Track guide

1. 00 - Forward: The Riddlers — 4:07
2. 01 - How to Know a Woodpecker — 6:57
3. 02 - How the Woodpecker Catches a Grub — 7:08
4. 03 - How the Woodpecker Courts His Mate — 6:43
5. 04 - How the Woodpecker Makes a House — 5:51
6. 05 - How the Flicker Feeds Her Young — 4:52
7. 06 - Friend Downy — 6:15
8. 07 - Persona non Grata (Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker) — 18:28
9. 08 - El Carpintero (Californian Woodpecker) — 10:52
10. 09 - A Red-Headed Cousin (Red-Headed Woodpecker) — 6:50
11. 10 - A Study of Acquired Habits — 10:44
12. 11 - The Woodpecker's Tools: His Bill — 10:35
13. 12 - The Woodpecker's Tools: His Foot — 11:13
14. 13 - The Woodpecker's Tools: His Tail — 16:38
15. 14 - The Woodpecker's Tools: His Tongue — 4:21
16. 15 - How Each Woodpecker is Fitted for His Own Kind of Life — 7:31
17. 16 - The Argument from Design — 3:31

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