Beautiful Birds
Edmund Selous
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
In this volume, Edmund Selous explains the beauty of birds to children. We meet some of the most beautiful birds in the world, and learn about their lives. We also learn what to do when our mothers decide to wear hats with stuffed birds on them! - Summary by Carolin (5 hr 19 min)
Chapters
| Why Beautiful Birds are Killed | 31:10 | Read by Scotty Smith |
| Birds of Paradise | 25:21 | Read by Natalia Cichy |
| The Great Bird of Paradise | 32:09 | Read by Scotty Smith |
| The Red Bird of Paradise | 20:15 | Read by jenno |
| The Lesser, Black, Blue, and Golden Birds of Paradise | 33:42 | Read by jenno |
| About all Birds of Paradise, and some Explanations | 22:53 | Read by lectora5 |
| About Humming-Birds, and some more Explanations | 23:59 | Read by lectora5 |
| Some very Bright Humming-Birds | 34:48 | Read by jenno |
| Hermit Humming-Birds and Two Other Ones | 18:55 | Read by RPBrevard |
| The Cock-of-the-Rock and the Lyre-Bird | 25:35 | Read by jenno |
| The Resplendent Trogon and the Argus Pheasant | 25:37 | Read by Elsie Selwyn |
| White Egrets, 'Ospreys', and Ostrich-Feathers | 25:16 | Read by Elsie Selwyn |
Reviews
A LibriVox Listener
A well intended book with a nice mix of facts, mythology and wonderment about various birds - as well as a very good message about the importance of protecting birds in the wild, and not kill or capture them. I do think that the the book at times gets a bit too heavy for children though. It is also quite rambling and repetitive, which makes some parts a bit tedious. The author could definitely have used a better editor, I feel.