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Chapter 1 – House Wren
Chapter 2 – House Sparrow
Chapter 3 – Sparrows
Chapter 4 – Chipping + Vesper Sparrows
Chapter 5 – Robin + Bluebird
Chapter 6 – Phoebe + Least Flycatcher
Chapter 7 – Flycatcher + Kingbird
Chapter 8 – Wood Pewee
Chapter 9 – Woodcock + Sandpiper
Chapter 10 – Red-winged Blackbird + Flicker
Chapter 11 – Woodpeckers
Chapter 12 – Cowbird + Baltimore Oriole
Chapter 13 – Orchard Oriole + Bobolink
Chapter 14 – Bobwhite + Meadowlark
Chapter 15 – Tree Swallow + Chimney Swift
Chapter 16 – Barn Swallow + Purple Martin
Chapter 17 – Blue Jay + Crow
Chapter 18 – Crow + Ovenbird + Redtail Hawk
Chapter 19 – Ruffed Grouse + Purple Grackle
Chapter 20 – Osprey + Bald Eagle
Chapter 21 – Kingfisher + Blue Heron
Chapter 22 – Bank Swallow + American Kestrel
Chapter 23 – Nighthawk + Whip-poor-will
Chapter 24 – Redstart + Yellow Warbler
Chapter 25 – More Warblers
Chapter 26 – Even More Warblers
Chapter 27 – Cardinal + Catbird
Chapter 28 – Rose-breasted Grosbeak + Scarlet Tanager
Chapter 29 – Vireo + Another Warbler
Chapter 30 – Thrasher + Mockingbird
Chapter 31 – Wood Thrush + Veery
Chapter 32 – Eastern Towhee + Indigo Bunting
Chapter 33 – Purple Finch + Goldfinch
Chapter 34 – Mourning Dove + Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Chapter 35 – Loggerhead Shrike + Hummingbird
Chapter 36 – European Starling + Cedar Waxwing
Chapter 37 – Black-capped Chickadee
Chapter 38 – Canada Goose + Common Loon
Chapter 39 – White-breasted Nuthatch + Brown Creeper
Chapter 40 – Tree Sparrow + Junco
Chapter 41 – Snow Bunting + Horned Lark
Chapter 42 – Eastern Screech Owl
Chapter 43 – Ruffed Grouse + Crossbill
Chapter 44 – Pine Grosbeak + Common Redpoll
Chapter 45 – Northern Goshawk + Great Horned Owl
P.L.A.Y. in Place Projects
Try these activities to extend your bird story adventures:
- Visit the Cornell Lab of Ornithology – ALL ABOUT BIRDS
- Nature journal coloring pages at Cornell Common Feeder Birds (FREE ).
Source: Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess
P.L.A.Y. has provided a new online version of all 45 chapters of this updated and annotated 100+ year old public domain classic to:
- be suitable for the 21st century family by having the Thornton Burgess woodland characters evolve to model mindfulness and loving kindness
- highlight and bring awareness to the New England nature settings and offer an opportunity to learn more about birds and other woodland animals through this story adventure
- create story extension moments through P.L.A.Y. suggested activities and investigations for making new nature connections generated by the reader’s own curiosity
- encourage families to keep their own nature notebooks for drawing, writing, painting, and recording their own local daily outdoor P.L.A.Y. adventures.
