Ep. 5 Birds: Moon Migration, Cher Ami, Cluck Old Hen and more!

The Past and The Curious: A History Podcast for Kids and Families

The Past and The Curious History Podcast for Kids

Kids & Family

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In honor of National Bird Day, this episode features some great bird stories from history. Victoria Reibel reads the story of Charles Morton, a man who tried to explain the mystery of bird migration with an otherworldly hypothesis. Jason Lawrence reads the tale of Cher Ami, one of the bravest little birds the world has ever known. Mick Sullivan performs the traditional folk song Cluck Old Hen. All this and more!

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0:00.0	Happy National Bird Day to you.
0:03.0	At least that's when this episode is originally released January 5th.
0:07.0	Before we get started, we just wanted to make you aware.
0:11.0	We are really excited about a lot of things right now.
0:14.0	First and foremost we are now an official member of Kids Listen which is a grassroots
0:20.2	international organization committed to creating and promoting high quality audio content for kids and families and all sorts of listeners.
0:30.0	We're absolutely thrilled to be alongside some truly great programs, so we encourage you heartily to check them out at kids listen.org.
0:40.0	You're going to find some great stuff.
0:42.0	Also, we'll soon be launching a Patreon campaign.
0:45.0	So if you're listening in the future and would like to offer some financial support,
0:50.0	please check us out. We'll be up there in early 2017. As always
0:56.4	follow us on social media and give us reviews on iTunes and Stitcher. It helps
1:00.7	enormously. We'd appreciate it ever so much.
1:03.2	On with the show! Hey, welcome to the Past and the Curious. Thank you for joining us. I'm Mick Sullivan, the
1:18.1	Creator and producer of The Past and the Curious. We were really excited to learn from our new friends at
1:24.4	tumble a science podcast for kids that January 5th is National Bird Day. Well we
1:32.3	happen to have a batch of true tales from the past about our fine-feathered
1:36.4	friends. So with this new knowledge, we raced to finish them up, find a song we liked,
1:42.0	and get it all ready in time.
1:43.8	So this entire episode is bird-themed.
1:46.6	Listen to it on National Bird Day, or any other day of the year, for that matter.
1:50.8	Birds are always interesting.
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