Wild Kratts
Chickadee Challenge!
Clip: Season 5 Episode 15 | 3mVideo has Closed Captions
Chris plants his Sunflower seeds during the winter only to have them scooped up by Chickad
Chris tries planting his Sunflower seeds but a flock of Chickadees keep scooping them up. Koki, Jimmy and Aviva thought Chickadees fly south for the winter but Martin explains that these little birds stay north are are pretty awesome. Aviva challenges the bros to prove the creature powers of these little birds and if they do, she will create a Chickadee Creature Power Suit.
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Wild Kratts
Chickadee Challenge!
Clip: Season 5 Episode 15 | 3mVideo has Closed Captions
Chris tries planting his Sunflower seeds but a flock of Chickadees keep scooping them up. Koki, Jimmy and Aviva thought Chickadees fly south for the winter but Martin explains that these little birds stay north are are pretty awesome. Aviva challenges the bros to prove the creature powers of these little birds and if they do, she will create a Chickadee Creature Power Suit.
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Winter's coming.
I've gotta get these seeds planted.
(background music) [Chris] Huh?
Where'd the seeds go?
(chirping sound) Hey... (Martin laughs) Did you put them up to that Martin?
No bro, that was 100% chickadee.
Not me.
(Chris laughs) I'm never gonna get these sunflower seeds planted with a flock of chickadees around.
[Chris] Easy there, you hungry birds!
Aw, you got all my seeds.
[Martin] Hey, these chickadees ha ve to eat what they can find.
True, they do have to make sure they eat enough food to survive through the harsh winter.
[Jimmy Z] No they don't.
Birds just fly south for the winter.
Yeah, how can they stay here in the cold?
[Aviva] They're so tiny, cute and delicate.
Even big, tough birds, like Canada geese fly south for the winter.
Yeah, you're right about the Canada goose flying south for the winter, but wrong about the chickadee.
There are a lot of birds that stay north in the winter.
Like woodpeckers.
And blue jays.
Fine, maybe blue jays.
[Koki] They're tough.
[Jimmy Z] And hide acorns remember?
[All] But not chickadees!
I'm telling ya, chickadees can tough it out.
They're pint sized, but powerful.
Powerful?
Okay, so prove it.
I propose a challenge.
If you can show me some powers of this little bird, then I'll make you a chickadee power suit.
(Martin gasps) [Both] A chickadee power suit?!
You're on!
Okay, for starters, chickadees got chops.
[Martin] Check it out.
(bird sound) Chickadees get bullied by blue jays.
But they don't back down.
They're brave and quick and tricky.
[Chris] So, check.
(check mark sound) One chickadee po wer to start the list.
Okay, I can give you that.
I also see right away that they are quick and agile flyers.
They're so small!
How can they survive the cold without... Having an incredible amount of warm feathers?
[Chris] Well, late in the summer, the chickadee finishes growing a new set of warm feathers for the winter.
And they also have this really cool, I mean really warm, trick of puffing up their feathers, [Martin] making them 25% bigger.
Chickadees even look more like cute, little, round puff balls when they do that, right?
The puffed up feathers trap warm air that stays warm, insulated by the feather layers.
And keeps the chickadee nice and toasty.
And what about the other trick?
[Chris] On cold nights, the chickadee can drop its body temperature so low, that it goes into a state of hypothermia.
That saves energy.
But they're not sleeping now.
Gotta follow em.
[Chris] And make observations.
[Martin] We'll be back, with more evidence of chickadee power soon.
(sound of woodpecker)
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