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Speaker 1: Every winter, many species of birds travel long distances. Do

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Speaker 1: you know why? Welcome to story Time by Lingo Kids,

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Speaker 1: where we discover fascinating facts about the world around us

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Speaker 1: and the fun of play learning. Have you ever gone

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Speaker 1: on a long trip? Maybe you traveled to a different

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Speaker 1: city or state or even a different country. Every winter,

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Speaker 1: many species of birds travel long distances, and every spring

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Speaker 1: they travel all the way back. Why do they make

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Speaker 1: this journey? What's it like? Do they get frequent flyer miles?

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Speaker 1: Is it dangerous? Maybe Billy can help us answer all

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Speaker 1: these questions. That is very interesting, Billy. Billy wants to

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Speaker 1: tell everyone about his big journey called migration.

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Speaker 2: Migrationin that's like a really great trip, right, good guess, Lisa.

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Speaker 1: Migration is when different types of species of animals like birds,

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Speaker 1: travel from one place to another in search for things

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Speaker 1: like a place to nest, warm weather, and food and water.

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Speaker 1: They usually have to go on a long, long journey

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Speaker 1: to get there. Lingo Kids listeners, imagine this. What if

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Speaker 1: you went with your mom or dad to the grocery

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Speaker 1: store but there was no food there? What would you do?

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Speaker 1: Oh no, that would be terrible, yes, elliot, But you

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Speaker 1: could just walk or drive to another grocery store to

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Speaker 1: get food, right, I guess so. As it gets colder

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Speaker 1: in the fall, migrating birds run out of food where

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Speaker 1: they're at, so they travel to a far away place

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Speaker 1: looking for food, food, a place to nest, as well

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Speaker 1: as to find warmer weather come springtime. As the weather

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Speaker 1: gets warmer, bird's head back up north, following the newly

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Speaker 1: budding plants and swarms of insects.

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Speaker 2: Did you just say insects hug you bird follow insects.

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Speaker 1: Do eat them? Ew?

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Speaker 2: Yeck yeck?

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Speaker 1: Oh cowie. Please don't yuck anyone's yum insects or tasty

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Speaker 1: food for a lot of birds. Billy says, insects tastes

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Speaker 1: great with a little ketchup. I have a question for Billy.

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Speaker 2: Where did you migrate from?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Billy flew all the way from Canada. How long

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Speaker 1: did that take? He says it took him about a month,

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Speaker 1: but he stopped a lot on the way to do

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Speaker 1: some science experiments. In general, bird migration takes anywhere from

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Speaker 1: a few weeks to a few months. Wow, that's a

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Speaker 1: long time. The longest migration of any bird is the

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Speaker 1: Arctic urn. What is the Arctic tern? Arctic urns are

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Speaker 1: small gray and white birds who are known for their

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Speaker 1: long migration patterns. They fly back and forth from Antarctica

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Speaker 1: to the Arctic over its lifespan. The Arctic tern travels

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Speaker 1: so far it would be like going to the Moon

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Speaker 1: and back three whole times.

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Speaker 2: Oh my, Billy, how did you prepare to migrate? What

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Speaker 2: did you do to get yourself ready? Did you do

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Speaker 2: lots of jumping jacks?

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Speaker 1: Billy says? He ate and ate, and ate and ate.

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Speaker 1: In fact, Billy ate so much food that he grew

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Speaker 1: to almost double the size he is now. That's because

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Speaker 1: it took loads of energy to fly.

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Speaker 2: So are you scared, Billy?

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Speaker 1: Billy was scared. Migrating is very hard work and can

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Speaker 1: be scary. A lot of birds don't make it all

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Speaker 1: the way to their destination. They can run out of food,

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Speaker 1: run into bad weather, or even get eaten by predators

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Speaker 1: like owls and hawks. Yikes, that is scary, Billy. You

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Speaker 1: sure are brave. That's right, Billy. There are now even

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Speaker 1: more dangers for birds as they make this long journey.

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Speaker 1: Though all different types of species of birds have been

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Speaker 1: migrating the same roots for a long long time, even

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Speaker 1: thousands of years, they are now getting confused by tall

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Speaker 1: building lights, radio and TV towers. Even windows are dangerous

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Speaker 1: to birds.

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Speaker 2: Billy, I have a question, how did you not get lost?

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Speaker 1: Did you have a map? Billy says his map is

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Speaker 1: in his head. That's known as instinct when animals are

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Speaker 1: born knowing certain things. Birds also use stars and even

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Speaker 1: something special called the Earth's magnetic field to help guide

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Speaker 1: their way.

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Speaker 2: WHOA, I'm imagining Billy flying through thunderstorms. He had to

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Speaker 2: eat insects, avoid getting eaten by predators, even avoid running

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Speaker 2: into windows. He had to use his brains and his

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Speaker 2: body and lots of courage all to make it here,

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Speaker 2: to be with us.

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Speaker 1: Yay Wi, sir, are happy you make it? Billy? You

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Speaker 1: have to migrate back. Billy says he's happy right here

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Speaker 1: with all of you. Boom. Thanks Lingo Kids listeners for listening.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, the next time you go outside, pay careful

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Speaker 1: attention to birds and maybe even give them some food

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Speaker 1: for their long migrational journey. If you are ready for

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