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A warthog with long tusks curving towards its body and leathery skin covered in mud. Caption: we can see that each has a beauty all its own.

Still image from: All the Answers: Bald Eagles, X-Rays, Movies

Still image from: All the Answers: Hurricanes, Owls, the Moon

Still image from: All the Answers: Penguins, Chimps, the Amazon

Still image from: Alma's Way: Basketball Birds / Looking for Litter

Still image from: American Eagles for Kids

Still image from: Animal DNA: Birds

Still image from: Animal DNA: Birds of Prey

Still image from: Animal DNA: Ducks, Geese, Swans, and More

Still image from: Animal DNA: Small Charming Birds

Man stands outside with a golden eagle perched on his arm.

Penguin chick perched on the feet of an adult penguin. Caption: Adults walk with newborns on their feet and under blubber

A condor in flight. Spanish captions.

A woman standing in front of an illustrated backdrop of a pond with a duck next to it. Spanish captions.

An illustrated bird on a branch. Spanish captions.

An illustration of an owl on a branch. Spanish captions.

A woman against an illustrated background with penguins. Spanish captions.

A woman riding a bike against an illustrated background with a rhea. Spanish captions.

A bird's nest in the ground with a baby bird, beak open. Caption: There will be winners and losers each year.

A bird in a cage perched on a stick. Caption: and their cheerful chittering can brighten any room.

A bird with a long, light colored neck, a dark head, and a long, pointed beak. Caption: are just a few of the many kinds of birds in our world.

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: The Bizarre Beast With Claws on Its Wings

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: The Weird Thing Storks Can Smell

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: The World's Longest Non-Stop Flight

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: Why This Nocturnal Parrot Only Breeds When Summer Is Hot

A hummingbird hovering around a plant.

Still image from: Condors For Kids

Close up of a golden eagle, wings folded. Caption: Where did this golden eagle come from?

Adult male penguin with multiple penguin chicks and a few adult penguins in the background. Caption: He searches the colony, calling for his chick…

Bird on a perch in an enclosure. Caption: When they're ready, they go.

Cartoon character clutching a book to his chest. Caption: It contains the secrets of Cyberspace.

Still image from: Deadly Predators: Speed

Wide shot of a partly cloudy sky with a falcon flying through the air in the distance.

Closeup of a light and dark brown mottled peregrine falcon egg shell.

Map of North and Central America. Different areas of the map are highlighted to indicate the habitat areas and 5 birds are superimposed on the map. The highlighted areas are concentrated in central Mexico, the west coast of the United states, and much of Canada and Alaska. Caption: they changed eye color from yellow to dark.

A small bird perched on a person's hand. It is gay with some brown on the wings. Caption: It's much more olive-gray, duskier gray on the head.

Brown hen duck and a mallard waddle around in the grass.

Still image from: Emus for Kids

A large number of eggs laid in water has a thick layer of jelly.

A large group of penguins.

A small bird perched on a plank. Caption: Somehow, there was a critical mass action that took off.

Close up of two puffins, one with fish in its mouth. Caption: During that time, the pair spends

Still image from: Go Jetters: Bird Migration--Spain & Africa

A diagram showing the transition from Reptiles (dinosaurs and crocodile-like animal) to Archaeopteryx (feathered animal between a reptile and a bird), to Birds. Caption: between birds and reptiles.

Still image from: Hawks for Kids

Artist colors in the yellow beak of a toucan drawn in black ink. Title card reads, "Shoo Rayner Drawing."

Aerial closeup of a hand using a brown marker to color in a black ink drawing of a hawk flying in the sky with open talons.

Black hummingbird with a white breast in flight. The wings are blurry because they are moving so fast. Caption: And it's no wonder they eat so much.

Man wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap sits next to a person who has their back towards us. They sit in an open vehicle in the Serengeti. In the distance is a group of wild animals.

Bird with orange head and black body perches on branch amid tangle of broken branches.

2 brown and white-feathered Ospreys rest on a large nest of twigs beneath a clear blue sky.

Purple, red, and white feathers float on a blue backdrop. Text reads, "Introduction to Birds."

Eggs of Screech owl, Turkey vulture, Audubon's Caracara, Kingfisher, Common Murree, Yellow Billed. Caption: Stoddard Et Al. Science 20 17.

Illustration of some birds with long legs and yellow bodies. Spanish captions.

Illustration of a human-like insect figure. Spanish captions.

Still image from: Lab Six: Puerto Rican Birds (Spanish)

Still image from: Lab Six: Puerto Rican Birds II (Spanish)

Still image from: Mélusine: Birds of Many Feathers

Illustration of three figures watching birds in the sky, as seen from behind. Caption: Yeah, they can run, float, and fly!

Aerial view of a large pond behind a complex of red brick buildings. A small white tent is to the right of the buildings, and a large array of solar panels is to the left of the buildings. Evergreen trees surround it all.

Still image from: My Pet and Me: Teeny Tiny Creatures--Robins

Person sitting at a desk and talking. Taxidermized animals and insects are on the shelves and desk. Caption: The illness the bacteria causes is called leptospirosis.

Show's intro montage with Danni Washington in the middle, the show's title card, and an airplane overlayed in the back like it's coming into frame.

3 people with hats, backpacks, and cameras and several horses, some with riders, hike up a dirt trail on a mountain amongst various flora in the fall. Caption. The mountains of Baja.

Still image from: Parrots for Kids

Still image from: Penguins for Kids

Man in suit and bowtie with a blackboard behind him. Blackboard shows two sets of birds in cages, one with lights, one without. Caption: This pioneering experiment would make Rowan famous.

Horseshoe crab partially out of the water among debris and plants. Caption: On the highest tides, they drag themselves to shore

Person holding a bright light over rows of chicken eggs. Caption: Then they are passed over lights and inspected.

Still image from: Ranger Hamza's Eco Quest: Blackbirds

Still image from: Ranger Hamza's Eco Quest: Buzzards

Still image from: Ranger Hamza's Eco Quest: Ducks

Still image from: Ranger Hamza's Eco Quest: Woodpecker

Angular aircraft with multiple flaps on each wing sitting on a concrete deck, viewed from below. Caption: (observer) The aircraft's controlled by many movable surfaces,

Book cover shows an illustration of a yellow-and-gray baby bird hatching out of a white egg, among a pile of other eggs. Text reads, "Hatch! Roxie Munro."

An aerial photograph. A line leads from Andros Island to N C coast and then to Prince Edward Island. A second line trace back from Pince Edward Island.

Bird with white belly, dark back and wings perched on a branch in a thicket. Caption: People are more like birds than we thought.

Brightly colored bird with a beak almost as large as its body. Caption: You'd think it would be too beak-heavy to fly.

White bird with gray speckles nesting on the ground. Caption: they check nests, count eggs, and keep records

Person standing at a control board with reels of tape. Caption: The good old days of reel-to-reel aren't over yet.

Black and white photo of a bird with wings extended, perched on a branch. University of Montana Flight Laboratory. Caption: the mechanics of their wing and leg movements.

Person holding a duckling. Caption: So we study how Mom's actions effect these little guys.

Large grey bird perched on the edge of a cage door. Caption: (male narrator) This is Griffin, an African grey parrot.

Yellow and black butterflies on the ground. Spanish captions.

An illustration of African penguins with the outline of Africa in the background. Caption: is undergoing a rapid and alarming decline. On screen text: Biodiversity news, Scientists save penguin chicks. African Penguin, Spheniscus demersus.

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Fun Facts About Turkeys

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Invading Birds

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Ravens Are Super Smart

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Who Knew? Amazing Owl Facts

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Why Don't Woodpeckers' Heads Hurt?

Still image from: SciShow: 3 Odd Facts About Pigeons

Raptors. Diagram of a raptor showing keen eyes, curved beak, talons, and a taste for prey. Caption: Raptors migrate south during the winter months

Still image from: Short Takes With Naturalist Rudy Mancke: Red-Tailed Hawk Feather

Still image from: Short Takes With Naturalist Rudy Mancke: Vireo Nest

A handful of white birds with long legs cluster together near the edge of a pond. Caption: a second migratory flock of whooping cranes.

A hummingbird drinking nectar out of a flower.

Owl with a small rodent in its beak. Raptor - A bird of prey such as an eagle, hawk, or owl that kills and eats other animals for food. Caption: Nocturnal raptors like owls eat many rodents

A photo of a bird. An inner line is drawn tracing the shape of the bird's circular head. The line extends along the beak.

An illustration of carbon emitted from factories. Caption: Black carbon was spewed into the air from coal factories.

Person turning the page of a book with detailed illustrations. The turning of the page. Caption: revealing a new page every week,

A photograph of Cetti's Warbler and its egg which measures 1 centimeter. On screen text, Cetti's Warbler, Cettia cetti. Caption: This is a Cetti's warbler from Southern Europe.

Bird perched in a tree. Caption: That would be evidence of habitat adaptation.

Illustrated image of a wing. Caption: So a wing would have evolved from a forelimb in stages.

Graphic of island with birds that are similar except for coloring. Caption: They had become distinct species.

Blue jay perched on a tree trunk pokes its beak into a divot in the wood.

Blue jay perched on a tree trunk pokes its beak into a divot in the wood.

Still image from: Through the Woods: Rider and the Woodpecker

A person looking up at a pair of primates in the trees. Caption: That's why scientists are interested in studying them.

Still image from: Vultures for Kids

Still image from: What Are Chordates?

Pelican floating in the water. Spanish captions.

Closeup of a bird on a branch. The bird has a light-colored body and a dark head. Caption: where they're evolving right before our eyes,

Still image from: What's Up? With Caron Levis ("Feather Together")

Still image from: What's Wild: Red-Cockaded Woodpecker

Still image from: Wild About Animals: A Wolf Hybrid, Tropical Fish, and African Vultures

Still image from: Wild About Animals: Humpback Whales, Unwanted Dogs, Primates, and Raptors

Black and white bird with a red spot on its head holds a seed while standing on a branch. Caption: The trees are used as a storehouse for a quick meal.

Aerial view of an industrial plant emitting pollution. Caption: and impacted by oil and gas exploration and activities.

Adult primate with a baby on its back swinging from the trees. Caption: The animals depend on the plants to survive,

Closeup of head and chest of a falcon. Caption: But only now does he have the bird

Bird with wings spread on a nest. Caption: The parent will care for that chick up to three years.

A pair of white bird with black head and back and an orange beak sit in on a mossy rock. Caption: returning to land in the spring to rear a single chick.

A white bird flying in the sky. Caption: Food is so scarce, this own can go 40 days between meals.

A yellowish-green bird sits on a branch surrounded by foliage. Caption: Suddenly, these birds are being found in the lowland forest

Digital art. Falcon faces a cheetah, competitively smiling at each other. The headline reads, “Wild Explorers presents The Ultimate Speed Showdown World Championship. Watch now.” Below them in red banners reads the text, “Falcon vs. Cheetah. See who is the fastest on the planet!”

Girl looks up at a falcon sitting atop an arched perch on the table in front of her. Text reads, “The name peregrine falcon means ‘wanderer!’”

An excited girl holds her arms out as five brightly-colored cartoon toucans swing from the ceiling on bamboo perches.

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Animal Engineering

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Taking Flight

A group of penguins with white chests, yellow-orange throats, and black heads and backs. Caption: (Thane) Birds are found in all kinds of color, shapes, and sizes.

Cartoon of a chick on a farm.

An acquatic bird with small wings, a curved bill, and webbed feet.

A bird with long wing.

Cartoon of a flamingo in the water.

An illustration of a hen standing on a big bowl.

Cartoon of an animal with horns in foliage.

A bird with long reddish neck, a small and wide bill, and small wings, on a barren land. The bird has big eyes with thick eyelashes.

Cartoon of an owl on a branch.

Cartoon of a peacock with tail feathers displayed.

Cartoon of a pelican catching fish in its mouth.

Cartoon of a penguin at the north pole.

An illustration of a pigeon on the street.

An illustration of rooster.

An illustration of a seagull

Cartoon of two swans on the water.

An illustration of a vulture.

Cartoon of a woodpecker perched on a tree.