Curious Book of Birds

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Animals & Nature

Authors: Abbie Farwell Brown In Year : 1903

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Curious Book of Birds

Preface
The Disobedient Woodpecker
Mother Magpie's Kindergarten
The Gorgeous Goldfinch
King of the Birds
Halcyone
The Forgetful Kingfisher
The Wren Who Brought Fire
How the Bluebird Crossed
The Peacock's Cousin
The Masquerading Crow
King Solomon and the Birds
The Pious Robin
The Robin who was an Indian
The Inquisitive Woman
Why the Nightingale Wakes
Mrs. Partridge's Babies
The Early Girl
How the Blackbird Spoiled his Coat
The Blackbird and the Fox
The Dove who Spoke the Truth
The Fowls on Pilgrimage
The Ground-Pigeon
Sister Hen and the Crocodile
The Thrush and the Cuckoo
The Owl and the Moon
The Tufted Cap
The Good Hunter
The Courtship of Mr. Stork and Miss Heron
Phœnix

Now the interesting facts about birds we have always with us. We can find them out for ourselves, which is a very pleasant thing to do, or we can take the word of others, of which there is no lack. But it is the quaint fancies about birds which are in danger of being lost. The long-time fancies which the world's children in all lands have been taught are quite as important as the every-day facts. They show what the little feathered brothers have been to the children of men; how we have come to like some and to dislike others as we do; why the poets have called them by certain nicknames which we ought to know; and why a great many strange things are so, in the minds of childlike people. (Summary from the book's introduction)