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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.
Nature
Season 26 / Ep 4
30 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Animal Jam: George the Handsome Scarlet Macaw!
Animal Jam
Episode 6
57 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Still image from: Animal Jam: Great Basin Wildlife Rescue Releases an Eagle
Animal Jam
Episode 11
5 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Still image from: Animal Jam: The Harpy Eagle--A Majestic Raptor of South America
Animal Jam
Episode 3
1 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Penguin chick perched on the feet of an adult penguin. Caption: Adults walk with newborns on their feet and under blubber
1 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A condor in flight. Spanish captions.
Animapaka (Spanish)
Episode 6
13 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 3
A woman standing in front of an illustrated backdrop of a pond with a duck next to it. Spanish captions.
Animapaka (Spanish)
Episode 5
13 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 3
An illustrated bird on a branch. Spanish captions.
Animapaka (Spanish)
Episode 8
14 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 3
An illustration of an owl on a branch. Spanish captions.
Animapaka (Spanish)
Episode 10
13 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 3
A woman against an illustrated background with penguins. Spanish captions.
Animapaka (Spanish)
Episode 20
13 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 3
A woman riding a bike against an illustrated background with a rhea. Spanish captions.
Animapaka (Spanish)
Episode 22
13 minutes
Grade Level: 1 - 3
A bird's nest in the ground with a baby bird, beak open. Caption: There will be winners and losers each year.
Ordinary Extraordinary Junco
Episode 3
17 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
A bird in a cage perched on a stick. Caption: and their cheerful chittering can brighten any room.
45 minutes
Grade Level: 6 - 12
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.
10 minutes
Grade Level: K - 3
A hummingbird hovering around a plant.
6 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Close up of a golden eagle, wings folded. Caption: Where did this golden eagle come from?
2 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Adult male penguin with multiple penguin chicks and a few adult penguins in the background. Caption: He searches the colony, calling for his chick…
Crittercam
Season 1 / Ep 4
23 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Bird on a perch in an enclosure. Caption: When they're ready, they go.
Curiosity Quest
Season 5 / Ep 9
24 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Cartoon character clutching a book to his chest. Caption: It contains the secrets of Cyberspace.
Cyberchase
Season 11 / Ep 9
28 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Deep Look: Peregrine Falcons Are Feathered Fighter Jets, Basically
Deep Look
Episode 20
4 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Deep Look: Watch These Peregrine Falcons Become Fierce Parents
Deep Look
Episode 6
5 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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.
Ordinary Extraordinary Junco
Episode 4
14 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
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.
Ordinary Extraordinary Junco
Episode 5
18 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Ducks for Kids: All About Ducks
1 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
A large number of eggs laid in water has a thick layer of jelly.
Eons
Season 3 / Ep 1
8 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A large group of penguins.
Eons
Season 2 / Ep 55
10 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A small bird perched on a plank. Caption: Somehow, there was a critical mass action that took off.
Ordinary Extraordinary Junco
Episode 7
15 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Close up of two puffins, one with fish in its mouth. Caption: During that time, the pair spends
55 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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.
Great Transitions
Episode 2
18 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: How to Draw a Toucan
5 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: How to Draw an Attacking Hawk
6 minutes
Grade Level: 4 - 8
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.
Nature
Season 28 / Ep 5
29 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: In Our Nature: Animal Culture
In Our Nature
Episode 2
25 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Into the Outdoors: Avian Conservancies
Into the Outdoors
Episode 44
5 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Into the Outdoors: Osprey Nesting
Into the Outdoors
Episode 45
6 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Eggs of Screech owl, Turkey vulture, Audubon's Caracara, Kingfisher, Common Murree, Yellow Billed. Caption: Stoddard Et Al. Science 20 17.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 7 / Ep 19
7 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Illustration of some birds with long legs and yellow bodies. Spanish captions.
Kool Books (Spanish)
Episode 39
14 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 5
Illustration of a human-like insect figure. Spanish captions.
Kool Books (Spanish)
Episode 49
12 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 5
Illustration of three figures watching birds in the sky, as seen from behind. Caption: Yeah, they can run, float, and fly!
Johan: The Young Scientist
Episode 15
12 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Still image from: Museum Access: The Wild Center
Museum Access
Season 2 / Ep 9
28 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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.
Natural News From The Field Museum
Season 0 / Ep 4
6 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Ordinary Extraordinary Junco: Remarkable Biology From A Backyard Bird!
Ordinary Extraordinary Junco
Episode
1 hour 32 minutes
Grade Level: 9 - 12
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.
Ordinary Extraordinary Junco
Episode 2
4 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Horseshoe crab partially out of the water among debris and plants. Caption: On the highest tides, they drag themselves to shore
Nature
Season 26 / Ep 7
30 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person holding a bright light over rows of chicken eggs. Caption: Then they are passed over lights and inspected.
Farm To Market
Season 0 / Ep 12
10 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
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,
Nature
Season 25 / Ep 7
29 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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.
4 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Bird with white belly, dark back and wings perched on a branch in a thicket. Caption: People are more like birds than we thought.
Ordinary Extraordinary Junco
Episode 1
2 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Brightly colored bird with a beak almost as large as its body. Caption: You'd think it would be too beak-heavy to fly.
Science Nation
Episode 200
4 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
White bird with gray speckles nesting on the ground. Caption: they check nests, count eggs, and keep records
Science Nation
Episode 151
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person standing at a control board with reels of tape. Caption: The good old days of reel-to-reel aren't over yet.
Science Nation
Episode 236
3 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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.
Science Nation
Episode 131
2 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person holding a duckling. Caption: So we study how Mom's actions effect these little guys.
Science Nation
Episode 152
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Large grey bird perched on the edge of a cage door. Caption: (male narrator) This is Griffin, an African grey parrot.
Science Nation
Episode 125
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Yellow and black butterflies on the ground. Spanish captions.
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 90
3 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 4
Raptors. Diagram of a raptor showing keen eyes, curved beak, talons, and a taste for prey. Caption: Raptors migrate south during the winter months
Seasonal Science
Episode 7
2 minutes 43 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A handful of white birds with long legs cluster together near the edge of a pond. Caption: a second migratory flock of whooping cranes.
EcoAdventures in North Florida (WFSU Local Routes)
Episode 2
4 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 9
A hummingbird drinking nectar out of a flower.
5 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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
The Brain Scoop
Episode 37
8 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 70
10 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
An illustration of carbon emitted from factories. Caption: Black carbon was spewed into the air from coal factories.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 63
1 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person turning the page of a book with detailed illustrations. The turning of the page. Caption: revealing a new page every week,
The Brain Scoop
Episode 19
5 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 67
12 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Bird perched in a tree. Caption: That would be evidence of habitat adaptation.
Ordinary Extraordinary Junco
Episode 6
11 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Illustrated image of a wing. Caption: So a wing would have evolved from a forelimb in stages.
8 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Graphic of island with birds that are similar except for coloring. Caption: They had become distinct species.
The Origin of Species
Episode 2
15 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A person looking up at a pair of primates in the trees. Caption: That's why scientists are interested in studying them.
14 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 9
Pelican floating in the water. Spanish captions.
10 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
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,
Ordinary Extraordinary Junco
Episode 8
3 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
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.
Wild Chronicles
Season 3 / Ep 307
2 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Aerial view of an industrial plant emitting pollution. Caption: and impacted by oil and gas exploration and activities.
Wild Chronicles
Season 3 / Ep 317
6 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Adult primate with a baby on its back swinging from the trees. Caption: The animals depend on the plants to survive,
Wild Chronicles
Season 3 / Ep 323
6 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Closeup of head and chest of a falcon. Caption: But only now does he have the bird
Wild Chronicles
Season 1 / Ep 105
4 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Bird with wings spread on a nest. Caption: The parent will care for that chick up to three years.
Wild Chronicles
Season 3 / Ep 302
3 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
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.
Wild Chronicles
Season 3 / Ep 335
4 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
A white bird flying in the sky. Caption: Food is so scarce, this own can go 40 days between meals.
Wild Chronicles
Season 3 / Ep 309
2 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
A yellowish-green bird sits on a branch surrounded by foliage. Caption: Suddenly, these birds are being found in the lowland forest
Wild Chronicles
Season 2 / Ep 235
6 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Still image from: Wild Explorers: Falcon vs. Cheetah!
Wild Explorers
Season 0 / Ep 17
1 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Still image from: Wild Explorers: Meet a Falcon!
Wild Explorers
Season 0 / Ep 16
1 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Still image from: Wild Explorers: Toucan Talk
Wild Explorers
Season 0 / Ep 23
2 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
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.
You at the Zoo
Episode 6
4 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Cartoon of a chick on a farm.
Zoobabu
Episode
2 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
An acquatic bird with small wings, a curved bill, and webbed feet.
Zoobabu
Episode
2 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
A bird with long wing.
Zoobabu
Episode
2 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Cartoon of a flamingo in the water.
Zoobabu
Episode
2 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
An illustration of a hen standing on a big bowl.
Zoobabu
Episode
2 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Cartoon of an animal with horns in foliage.
Zoobabu
Episode
2 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
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.
Zoobabu
Episode
2 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Cartoon of an owl on a branch.
Zoobabu
Episode
2 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Cartoon of a peacock with tail feathers displayed.
Zoobabu
Episode
2 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Cartoon of a pelican catching fish in its mouth.
Zoobabu
Episode
2 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Cartoon of a penguin at the north pole.
Zoobabu
Episode
2 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
An illustration of a pigeon on the street.
Zoobabu
Episode
2 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
An illustration of rooster.
Zoobabu
Episode
2 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
An illustration of a seagull
Zoobabu
Episode
2 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Cartoon of two swans on the water.
Zoobabu
Episode
2 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
An illustration of a vulture.
Zoobabu
Episode
2 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Cartoon of a woodpecker perched on a tree.
Zoobabu
Episode
2 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
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