Project Gutenberg 2021-09-14 Public domain in the USA. 58 Rand, Austin Loomer 1905 1982 Rand, A. L. (Austin Loomer) 55005254 Stray Feathers From a Bird Man's Desk Introduction -- Birds using tools -- Birds as brigands -- Birds bathing -- How birds anoint their feathers -- Traveling birds' nests -- Maladaptation in birds -- Feathered baby sitters and co-op nursery nests -- Birds' nests and their soup -- Walled wives of hornbills -- Buried eggs and young -- The snowy owl as a trade index -- Monkey birds -- Bird-made incubators -- Cormorant fishing -- The shrike's larder -- Bird flavors -- How many feathers has a bird? -- Last year's birds' nests -- Symbiosis: animals living in mixed households -- Bird apartment houses -- Bird helpers at nesting time -- A name for a boat -- Weavers and tailors in the bird world -- Social parasites among birds -- Fish eats bird! -- Crows are smarter than "wise" owls -- Tame wild birds -- Birds as pilferers -- Hibernation in birds -- Snakeskins in birds' nests -- Co-operation by birds -- Watchdogs at the nest -- Bird guides to honey -- Oxpeckers -- Wings in feeding -- Instrumental music of birds -- Conditioning in birds -- Poisonous birds -- Kingfishers on the telephone -- On identifying sea serpents -- Conservation over the telephone -- Birds washing food -- How animal voices sound to foreign ears -- Sight identification -- Green hunting jays turn blue -- How birds use cows as hunting dogs -- Early bird listing -- Battle of the sexes and its evolutionary significance -- Water in the desert -- Bird graveyards -- Animal gardens -- Dropping things -- Learning by birds -- Can birds count? -- Courtship feeding -- They turned the tables -- Survival of the unfit -- Dust and snow bathing -- Decoration in the home -- Curiosity in birds. Tim Lindell, Tom Cosmas and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) en Birds -- Behavior QL Text Browsing: Nature/Gardening/Animals Browsing: Science - General 335973 335988 2024-08-27T08:56:45.623779 2023-09-28T09:01:22.989442 text/html text/html 335697 2021-09-14T19:49:01 text/html 1738584 2024-08-27T08:56:56.847687 application/epub+zip 1738315 2024-08-27T08:56:48.333767 application/epub+zip 251092 2024-08-27T08:56:46.379795 application/epub+zip 1576779 2024-08-27T08:57:02.240685 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1510191 2024-08-27T08:56:54.928731 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 253105 2022-09-29T19:54:36.886388 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 266764 266794 2024-08-27T08:56:44.582763 2023-09-28T09:01:22.050447 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 266588 2021-09-14T19:49:01 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 19746 2024-08-27T08:57:02.390673 application/rdf+xml 15142 2024-08-27T08:56:46.526763 image/jpeg 2683 2024-08-27T08:56:46.453735 image/jpeg 102959 2021-09-14T19:49:41 application/octet-stream application/zip 2099939 2021-09-14T19:49:41 application/octet-stream application/zip 2102805 2024-08-27T08:56:45.784775 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia