Episode 64: Oh, So Many Birds!

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

The Past and The Curious History Podcast for Kids

Kids & Family

4.5 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Eugene Schieffelin filled American skies with Starlings, who replaced the Passenger Pigeons that once (literally) darkened the skies. John James Audubon's obsession helped him create a very expensive book. This episode is about birds, and a whole lot more. Featuring Greg and Abigail Maupin, Mick Sullivan and that's about it.

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0:00.0	Hello the past and the curious listeners. I'm Nate Dufort, I'm Brian Holden, and I'm Meredith Steppian, and we're just some of the team behind the show,
0:09.0	Reach, a space podcast for kids.
0:12.0	Built for kids and based on questions from kids around the world, reach features fun interviews with leading scientific experts, astronauts, and more.
0:21.0	Are you curious about what's happening with the Mars Perseverance Rover?
0:25.0	What about NASA's Artemis program that will return humans to the moon?
0:29.0	We have the answers from experts at space agencies around the globe, in segments made for teen and tween audiences, or anyone with an interest in space.
0:38.0	We also have a lot of fun with activities and experiments that you can do at home.
0:43.0	As well as conversations with interstellar objects as played by some very familiar voices.
0:48.0	So, if you ever wanted to talk to the sun?
0:50.0	My favorite thing about being the sun, I guess it's that I'm the center of everything.
0:55.0	I do like the attention, the moon.
0:58.0	I may have heard a lyric from a children's song suggesting that a cow jumped over the moon.
1:02.0	I feel like I would have noticed that.
1:04.0	A black hole.
1:05.0	Here's a fun word.
1:06.0	Specification.
1:07.0	A favorite planet.
1:08.0	Uranus.
1:09.0	Uranus.
1:10.0	What rhymes with Uranus?
1:12.0	Or a former planet.
1:14.0	All is fair in love and planet.
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