W-B-U-R Podcasts, Boston.

Have you ever heard the saying, there's no I in team what it means is it can be much

more effective when we work together to achieve a goal rather than going out on our own.

In today's story, we'll meet a bird who learns that lesson the hard way and winds up with

quite a tail in more ways than one.

I'm Rebecca Sheer and welcome to Circle Round.

Where story time happens all the time.

Today our story is called The Clockbird.

It comes from parts of Latin America, including Mexico and Costa Rica.

Some really great people came together to bring you our version of this tale, including

Byron Man, whom you've grown ups may know from the movie The Big Short, the TV series Arrow,

and the new indie film The Modelizer.

So Circle Round everyone, for The Clockbird.

The Little Bird, known as the Matmot, makes its home in lush green forests in certain parts of Latin America.

The Matmot is colorful, very colorful, with gleaming iridescent feathers of orange, green, and blue.

But the Matmot isn't easy to find.

It spends much of its time hidden in tunnels that it burrows underground.

Why?

Well, according to legend, the Matmot keeps to itself because it's ashamed of its tail.

You see, the Matmot's tail is basically bald.

It does have too long feathers, but they're bare at the spine, so they look more like slender bones.

And they have this little round clump of plumage at the end.

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