Nature & Birdsong
Jack Miner and the Birds and Some Things I Know about Nature
Jack Miner
1923
6h 27m
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A Canadian brickmaker with no schooling built a pond, filled it with wild geese, and became one of the fathers of bird conservation. Jack Miner tells it in his own plain voice - the banding, the migration, the birds he knew individually - and the warmth is entirely unforced.
Inside this audiobook
20 chapters
- 1Preface and Introduction17m
- 2Chapter 1 Who is Jack Miner and Chapter 2 My First Pets8m
- 3Chapter 3 Market Hunting and Chapter 4 Our Faithful Dogs8m
- 4Chapter 5 Bob White Quail and Chapter 6 Raising English or Ring-necked Pheasants in Canada23m
- 5Chapter 7 The Natural Enemy of Our Birds and Chapter 8 Some Things I have Known Cannibal Birds to Do29m
- 6Chapter 9 Weasels, and How to Destroy Them and Chapter 10 Robins21m
- 7Chapter 11 The Bluebirds and Chapter 12 Woodpeckers11m
- 8Chapter 13 The Swallow Family and Chapter 14 Wild Duck Hunting25m
- 9Chapter 15 Knowledge and Ways of the Wild Duck and Chapter 16 Do Birds Return to Their Same Homes?25m
- 10Chapter 17 Birds as Missionary Messengers and Chapter 18 How Wild Ducks Conceal Their Nests13m
- 11Chapter 19 My Last Distinguished Family of Pet Ducks and Chapter 20 Ducks' Love Soon Ceases12m
- 12Chapter 21 The Migration of Ducks and Chapter 22 Can Birds Smell?25m
- 13Chapter 23 The Canada Goose34m
- 14Chapter 24 Nesting Canada Geese and Chapter 25 Our Model Canada Goose18m
- 15Chapter 26 Do Birds Have a Language? and Chapter 27 The Career of Jack Johnson31m
- 16Chapter 28 The Migration of Our Canada Geese and Chapter 29 Catching and Tagging the Wild Goose26m
- 17Chapter 30 Game Protection and Chapter 31 Creating a Bird Sanctuary19m
- 18Chapter 32 Our Native Swans and Chapter 33 The Line of Migration8m
- 19Chapter 34 Inquiries and Answers24m
- 20Chapter 35 Sportsmanship and Chapter 36 Conclusion10m
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