Instructional Video6:11
SciShow

Why City Birds Love Cigarettes

12th - Higher Ed
Urban birds like house finches and house sparrows are great at finding materials to repel pests and parasites from their nests. Unfortunately, one of those materials is used cigarette butts.
Instructional Video5:13
TED-Ed

TED-ED: How do birds learn to sing? _ Partha Mitra

Pre-K - Higher Ed
A brown thrasher knows a thousand songs. A wood thrush can sing two pitches at once. A mockingbird can match the sounds around it - including car alarms. These are just a few of the 4,000 species of songbirds. How do these birds learn...
Instructional Video14:13
SciShow Kids

The Science of Spring!

K - 5th
It's finally spring where Jessi and Squeaks live! Join them as they take a look back at some of their favorite springtime subjects like why it rains, how plants grow, and all the amazing bugs you can find in the spring!
Instructional Video5:25
SciShow

We've Been Ignoring Female Birdsong for Centuries

12th - Higher Ed
Birdsong has historically been described as a male trait to compete for female mates, but there's a good chance that you've never learned about female birdsong, and they do indeed sing!
Instructional Video2:38
SciShow

How Do Parrots Talk Like Humans?

12th - Higher Ed
Are parrots just good at imitating sounds or is there something else that separates them from other birds?
Instructional Video3:38
SciShow

Attack of the Brain-Eating Killer Songbirds

12th - Higher Ed
Zombies aren't coming for you brains, but for an unfortunate species of bats, the terror of seemingly sweet songbirds developing a taste for brains is a horrific reality.
Instructional Video4:10
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Bird migration, a perilous journey - Alyssa Klavans

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Nearly 200 species of songbirds migrate south for winter, some traveling up to 7,000 miles. No easy task, the annual journey is dangerous to birds due to landscape change -- so much so, that only half the birds that migrate south will...
Instructional Video2:50
SciShow Kids

Why Do Birds Sing? Animal Science for Kids

K - 5th
It's spring where Jessi and Squeaks lives, and that means the air is filled with the sounds of birds singing! But have you ever wondered why birds sing and who they're signing to?
Instructional Video1:47
SciShow

Why Do Birds Sing in the Morning?

12th - Higher Ed
You’re having a dream, and for some reason that giant rabbit that’s about to eat you starts to sing like a bird. You wake up to find that birds are singing outside your window! Check out this SciShow Quick Question to find out why those...
Instructional Video4:39
Wonderscape

Amazing Migrations: The Fascinating Journeys of Birds Around the World

K - 5th
Science Kids Birds and Bird Migration V1-0003

Birds migrate along specific flyways, with some following wind patterns while others rely on landmarks. Songbirds like the black pole warbler use tailwinds in spring to reach their...
Podcast3:54
KERA

How Zebra Finches Learn to Sing

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Humans and baby birds appear to be very different creatures, but scientists are studying certain birds because they learn their songs in a similar way that humans learn speech. A new study from University of Texas Southwestern Medical...
Instructional Video1:35
Visual Learning Systems

What Is a Bird?: Different Kinds of Birds

3rd - 8th
Vivid, live-action footage of birds from throughout the world illustrate the lives of birds. Concepts and terminology: feathers, wings, skeleton, flight, and eggs.
Instructional Video14:14
Restoration Planet

Ep. 3 Edmonton, Alberta: Helping Nature Heal

9th - 12th
No one is helping nature heal more than WILDNorth in Edmonton. Watching an injured hawk taking flight was a real highlight in our journey so far. They also gave us behind the scenes access to their facilities where we filmed a spunky...
Instructional Video17:52
National Parks Service

Yellowstone National Park - Birds

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Distance learning video about birds.
Instructional Video
Other

Described and Captioned Media Program: Ordinary, Extraordinary Junco

9th - 10th
A collection of eight documentary videos presenting scientific research on the junco group of songbirds.
Instructional Video
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Bird in Hand to Save Those in the Bush

9th - 10th
Join orinthologists at Braddock Bay, a prime stop for migrating birds, as they explain what can be learned from the songbirds they observe.
Audio
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: The 'Uncool' Passion of Jonathan Franzen

9th - 10th
The best-selling novelist has a soft spot for birds.