Extinct Birds - February 21
Lost Bird Learning
Friday, February 21, 2025
Today is National Sticky Bun Day.
Black History Month Resource of the Day: NHPBS - Black Culture Connection
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Extinct Birds
ON THIS DATE
- 1848 - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.
- 1878 - The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
- 1885 - The Washington Monument is dedicated.
- 1916 - The Battle of Verdun begins in France.
- 1918 - The last Carolina parakeet dies at the Cincinnati Zoo.
- 1925 - The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
- 1965 - Malcolm X is assassinated while giving a talk at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem.
- 1972 - President Richard M. Nixon begins his historic visit to China.
- 1621 - Massachusetts colonist who was executed as a witch, Rebecca Nurse
- 1893 - Spanish guitarist Andres Segovia
- 1903 - Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey
- 1907 - Poet and playwright W. H. Auden
- 1933 - Singer-songwriter Nina Simone
- 1936 - Politician Barbara Jordan
- 1940 - Politician and civil rights activist John Lewis
- 1946 - English Actor Alan Rickman
- 1964 - Astronaut and politician Mark Kelly
- 1979 - Actor, producer, and screenwriter Jordan Peele
- Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Do You Know About the Dodo? (1:19) - VIEW
- Grades 3-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Jump Back in Time (2:22) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 3-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Aviva's Latest Invention: Dodo Birds (1:33) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Smithsonian Science How - Bird Extinctions: Time Travel through Lava Tubes (29:14) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest - Reawakening Extinct Species (26:46) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Hiki No - Return of the Alala (26:02) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Eons - The Time Terror Birds Invaded (5:32) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - University Place -The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon (55:05) - VIEW
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