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Stray Feathers From a Bird Man's Desk

Canadian zoologist, Austin L. Rand, takes a divergence from his scholarly works on ornithology to give us 60 entertaining sketches of bird life and lore from Birds Bathing to Courtship Feeding.

From the author's introduction: "In looking back over the preparation of these sketches I feel as though each evening I'd gathered up the bits and pieces left over from the day's work and fashioned them into designs for my own amusement and the edification of my family. Truly it's as though I'd used stray feathers, fallen from the bird skins I'd handled, and fitted them together into something of wider interest than the original.. . . . This series of articles is intended to be interesting and entertaining." - Summary by Larry Wilson

Year of Publication: 1955Genres: Life Sciences , Animals

Running Time: 05 hours 16 minutes 00 second

#	Chapter Name
1	Introduction Larry Wilson	6:16
2	Birds Using Tools Tom Merritt	6:37
3	Birds as Brigands Tom Merritt	5:15
4	Birds Bathing Tom Merritt	5:29
5	How Birds Anoint Their Feathers Tom Merritt	4:33
6	Traveling Birds' Nests Tom Merritt	4:56
7	Maladaptation in Birds Tom Merritt	5:52
8	Feathered Baby Sitters and Co-op Nursery Nests ChristineO	4:30
9	Birds' Nests and Their Soup docdlmartin	6:29
10	Walled Wives of Hornbills BettyB	4:57
11	Buried Eggs and Young diligentdodo	4:28
12	The Snowy Owl as a Trade Index Phil Schempf	3:46
13	Monkey Birds Tom Merritt	4:59
14	Bird-Made Incubators Jared Shaw	4:50
15	Cormorant Fishing Jared Shaw	5:27
16	The Shrike's Larder Jared Shaw	4:22
17	Bird Flavors Jared Shaw	4:05
18	How Many Feathers Has a Bird? Phil Schempf	4:24
19	Last Year's Birds' Nests Tom Merritt	6:45
20	Symbiosis—Animals Living in Mixed Households BettyB	5:30
21	Bird Apartment Houses mleigh	8:01
22	Bird Helpers at Nesting Time BettyB	5:06
23	A Name for a Boat Larry Wilson	5:29
24	Weavers and Tailors in the Bird World mleigh	5:34
25	Social Parasites among Birds Jared Shaw	6:03
26	Fish Eats Bird! Lynn Marie	3:37
27	Crows Are Smarter Than "Wise" Owls Tom Merritt	4:18
28	Tame Wild Birds docdlmartin	5:23
29	Birds as Pilferers realisticspeakers	6:07
30	Hibernation in Birds realisticspeakers	4:29
31	Snakeskins in Birds' Nests Jared Shaw	11:20
32	Co-operation by Birds mleigh	7:23
33	Watchdogs at the Nest Tom Merritt	4:14
34	Bird Guides to Honey Craig Abbott	3:46
35	Oxpeckers Tom Merritt	4:37
36	Wings in Feeding Tom Merritt	7:13
37	Instrumental Music of Birds Tom Merritt	5:01
38	Conditioning in Birds Craig Abbott	6:42
39	Poisonous Birds Craig Abbott	4:16
40	Kingfishers on the Telephone Tom Merritt	5:53
41	On Identifying Sea Serpents mleigh	7:05
42	Conservation over the Telephone mleigh	5:47
43	Birds Washing Food mleigh	4:07
44	How Animal Voices Sound to Foreign Ears docdlmartin	4:02
45	Sight Identification BettyB	5:45
46	Green Hunting Jays Turn Blue BettyB	4:16
47	How Birds Use Cows as Hunting Dogs realisticspeakers	5:56
48	Early Bird Listing mleigh	4:07
49	Battle of the Sexes and Its Evolutionary Significance realisticspeakers	5:30
50	Water in the Desert Jared Shaw	4:33
51	Bird Graveyards Jared Shaw	4:48
52	Animal Gardens Jared Shaw	4:07
53	Dropping Things Tom Merritt	4:35
54	Learning by Birds Lynn Marie	3:49
55	Can Birds Count? Lynn Marie	3:45
56	Courtship Feeding Jared Shaw	3:36
57	They Turned the Tables Jared Shaw	5:22
58	Survival of the Unfit Tom Merritt	3:59
59	Dust and Snow Bathing Jared Shaw	3:57
60	Decoration in the Home Jared Shaw	4:22
61	Curiosity in Birds Tom Merritt	4:30