Hey, Signes Quickly Listeners, it's Jeff Delvisio, executive producer of the show.

Well, it's the end of the year and the whole team is taking a moment to look back at some of our favorite shows from 2023

My pick has all the elements of a perfect podcast

It's got monsters the size of small airplanes, a discovery hiding for three decades in

plane sight, and the words, Passerine, Peep Show. It comes from host to Laura Lickman and it's also the start of an epic

four-part mini series filled with creatures built like tanks and axe murderers.

Basically a little thrill to add to your holiday chill.

Enjoy and see you next year.

Happy holidays everybody. You're listening to Scientific Americans, science quickly, and I'm Flora Lichtman.

This week I want to take you bird watching, but I'm not talking about an ordinary Passerine Peep show.

We are skipping the songbirds. It's a no-fly zone for hawks and raptors.

Waterfowl, throw in the towel.

The birds were going to meet, they're not like anything you've ever peeped.

They use the big as an axe to kill prey.

So just imagine the largest thing you've ever seen alive flying.

They are colossal around 1,900 pounds. The eggs would have

been about 150 times the size of chicken egg.

Two feet for feathers, which is, that's a big feather.

Most people, you know, think ostrich and they think that's big, but actually they were real giants around at one time.

We are talking about birds that weighed as much as a sports car.

Birds who were the top predators of their day, prowling the jungle and devouring animals the size of small horses.

Birds so gargantuan that you could mistake them for an airplane.

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