Our Feathered Friends
Elizabeth Grinnell
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
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 (3 hr 18 min)
Chapters
| Introduction | 5:41 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| The Message of a Mocking-bird | 5:08 | Read by Sue Gill |
| Some People We Like to Know | 5:57 | Read by Stacy Dugan-Wilcox |
| Civilized Birds | 5:31 | Read by Stacy Dugan-Wilcox |
| How Birds Dress | 6:12 | Read by Stacy Dugan-Wilcox |
| How Madam Bird Combs Her Hair | 8:06 | Read by mleigh |
| What Birds Carry in Their Pockets | 10:36 | Read by mleigh |
| Child Birds | 5:01 | Read by MaybeCordelia |
| How Baby Birds are Fed | 5:39 | Read by MaybeCordelia |
| At Meal-time | 7:47 | Read by Andrea Kotzer |
| Seed-eaters and Meat-eaters | 7:37 | Read by SmilingJade |
| Some Birds with a Bad Name | 10:31 | Read by SmilingJade |
| Before Breakfast | 7:45 | Read by SmilingJade |
| Our Birds' Restaurant—Meals at All Hours | 9:30 | Read by SmilingJade |
| Umbrellas and Other Things | 10:33 | Read by SmilingJade |
| Cradle Making | 5:07 | Read by MaybeCordelia |
| Our Screech Owl | 6:23 | Read by Colleen McMahon |
| Birds at Work and Play | 6:28 | Read by Colleen McMahon |
| Some Other Birds at Work | 8:59 | Read by Colleen McMahon |
| A Pet Humming-bird | 4:35 | Read by Samikshaya Ananthakrishnan |
| How We Took the Humming-birds' Pictures | 7:20 | Read by MaybeCordelia |
| Our Robin Redbreast | 7:08 | Read by Sue Gill |
| More about Our Robin | 9:19 | Read by Sue Gill |
| Going to Bed and Getting Up | 8:01 | Read by BettyB |
| Mrs. Towhee Proposes a Garden Party | 7:06 | Read by briannag |
| At the Garden Party | 7:45 | Read by MaybeCordelia |
| Our Bird Hospital | 4:30 | Read by BettyB |
| A Splendid Collection | 4:43 | Read by Larry Wilson |