Extinct Birds, Whales, and Pangolins - February 21
Lost Bird Learning
Saturday, February 21, 2026
Today is National Sticky Bun Day, World Whale Day, and Pangolin Day.
Black History Month Resource of the Day: NHPBS - Black Culture Connection
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Extinct Birds, Whales, and Pangolins
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
- Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Whale Watching (10:02) - VIEW
- Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Guess How Whales Hear (5:58) - VIEW
- Grade 1-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Whale of a Squid (26:25) - VIEW
- Grades 1-3 - PBS LearningMedia- Wild Kratts - Adventures with Whales (1:26) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Whale Scientist (available in Spanish) (2:38) - VIEW
- Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Ocean Today - Gray Whale Migration (2:14) - VIEW
- Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Jonathan Bird's Blue World - Wilma the (beluga) Whale (10:04) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Jonathan Bird's Blue World -The Shark and the Whale (9:07) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - When Whales Walked - Pakicetus: Walking Whale Ancestor (3:12) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia- Quest - Whale Sharks (3:15) - VIEW
- Grades 8-10 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Killer Whales and the Changing Arctic (3:31) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Eons - When Whales Walked (4:56) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - How the Andes Mountains Might Have Killed a Bunch of Whales (8:27) - View
THEME: Pangolins
- Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Pangolin Rescue Mission (3:04) - VIEW
- Grades 4-12 - San Diego Zoo - Tree Pangolin - READ
- Grades 6-12 - Nature - All About Pangolins - VIEW and READ
- Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Rescued Pangolins Treated for Injuries (2:34) - VIEW
- Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Abused Baby Pangolin Gets a New Home (2:19) - VIEW
- Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Baby Pangolin and Her Best Friend (1:55) - VIEW
- Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Metrofocus - Plight of the Pangolin (8:18) - VIEW
- Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Brookfield Zoo Fights to Save World’s Most Trafficked Animal (7:02) - VIEW
About New Hampshire PBS: New Hampshire PBS inspires, educates and connects all Granite Staters every month—on-air, online, on mobile, in classrooms, and across our communities. From award-winning local and national programs to innovative education and community initiatives, we’re turning stories into action and ideas into impact across the Granite State. Driven by passion. Fueled by you. We are 100% community funded.
###
NHPBS PRESSROOM
Connect: Facebook • Instagram • LinkedIn • TikTok • nhpbs.org
____________________________________________________________________
DIGITAL | PBS APP | YOUTUBE | NHPBS | EXPLORE | WORLD | CREATE | PBS KIDS | NHK
BROADCAST | NHPBS | EXPLORE | WORLD | CREATE| PBS KIDS
New Hampshire PBS | 268 Mast Road | Durham, NH 03824 | 603.868.1100
11 Durham, 34 Pittsburg, 23 Littleton, 18 Keene, 36 Hanover
Station Management
Peter A. Frid
President & CEO
pfrid@nhpbs.org
603-868-1100
Dawn DeAngelis
Vice President & Chief Content Officer
ddeangelis@nhpbs.org
603-868-1100
Pressroom Contact
Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
(603) 868-4339