Cassell's Book of Birds, Part 5 - Parrots Continued
Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep
Sharon Handy
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🗓️ 11 March 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Let’s fly away to sleep with more about beautiful birds and that fantastic family of feathered friends, the parrots. This time, we marvel at lovebirds, cockatoos, and the curious kakapo. Adorable!
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime. |
| 0:09.0 | I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you |
| 0:17.3 | get some sleep. Before we begin I'd like to give a special shout out of thanks to some new supporters, Anna B. |
| 0:27.4 | who became our first member over on YouTube, and Ilse, who's joined our Patreon. |
| 0:34.0 | Thank you both so much for supporting this podcast. |
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| 0:59.0 | I hope you'll take a moment to check them out. |
| 1:02.0 | Now, let's read and relax. Find a comfortable |
| 1:09.5 | spot. Adjust your volume. Take a nice deep breath in. Let it out slowly and off we go. |
| 1:27.0 | Tonight let's relax with more information about our feathered friends as we continue with |
| 1:36.0 | Castle's Book of Birds from the text of Dr Brem by Thomas Reimer Jones, FRS, Professor of Natural History and Comparative Anatomy |
| 1:49.6 | in King's College London, with upwards of 400 engravings and a series of colored plates. |
| 1:59.2 | First published in four volumes in 1869 by Castle Petter and Galpin, London and New York. |
| 2:09.6 | Let's pick up right where we left off in the chapter on Crackers, the Enucleotore's. Let's begin. |
| 2:21.1 | The Dwarf Parrots Parrots |
| 2:24.0 | Among the most vivacious and docile members of this family, |
| 2:28.0 | The Dwarf Parrots, |
| 2:30.0 | Citicula, deserve our particular notice, for their behavior is quite in harmony |
| 2:37.4 | with their beautiful exterior. |
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