Episode
Dinosaur Train: The Old Bird
Overview
Buddy, Tiny and Mom make a play date with Petey Peteinosaurus to ride the Dinosaur Train to meet Arlene Archeopteryx, a bird from the family of the oldest birds ever! The kids are excited to learn that Arlene is a bird and a dinosaur.
Details
- Series
- Dinosaur Train
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 39
- Air date
- 2010-02-16
- Runtime
- 11 min
Episode context
The Old Bird is Episode 39 in Season 1 of Dinosaur Train. It aired on 2010-02-16. The runtime is 11 min.
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Episode 38: Buddy the Tracker
Buddy and Don are “”footprint detectives”” as they track and find creatures they know at the Big Pond. The plot thickens when they discover fossilized tracks that are millions of years old!
Episode 40: Diamond Don
Shiny and Don stay at home. We get to see that just because they don’t always ride with Buddy and Tiny on the Dinosaur Train doesn’t mean that they are not having fun. An adventure into a local caves leads to a marvelous and brilliant discovery.
More episodes from this season
Episode 37: King Cryolophosaurus
Buddy, Tiny, Don and Mom meet a reclusive, singing dinosaur named King who has a big swooping crest on his head and a voice that sounds an awful lot like Elvis Presley.
Episode 41: Dinosaur Camouflage
Buddy and Tiny learn about camouflage when they meet a shy dinosaur, Leslie Lesothosaurus, who is very good at hiding. The kids end up persuading Leslie to stop hiding and come out to play with them.
Episode 36: Shiny's Sea Shells
Shiny, with help from Buddy, Tiny and Don, looks for the shiniest sea shells she can find, but ends up making a new friend named Henry, a hermit crab who lives in his own shell on the beach at the Big Pond.
Episode 42: Family Scavenger Hunt
The Pteranodon family travels to the Big Pond for a Scavenger Hunt. Using clues and rhymes, the kids solve word puzzles and finally glimpse a bug-eating plant they thought was mere make-believe.
Episode 35: The Burrowers
The Pteranodon family rides the Dinosaur Train to meet a family of amazing, burrowing dinosaurs that live in holes and put on a “Cirque de Soleil” kind of acrobatic show every evening!
Episode 43: Have You Heard About the Herd?
Buddy, Tiny, and Mom ride the Dinosaur Train to the Cretaceous Picnic Grounds. They meet Ernie Einiosaurus, who shows them what it’s like to live in a herd of horned Ceratopsians.
Episode 34: Cretaceous Conifers
The whole Pteranodon family have fun celebrating Mom’s favorite holiday, Winter Solstice. They learn about large conifer (evergreen) trees and help decorate them at a holiday party.
Episode 44: Jess Hesperornis
The Pteranodons venture to the Big Pond to find out if dinosaurs can live in the water. Their quandaries are quenched when they meet Jess Hesperornis, who turns out to be not only a water-dwelling dinosaur, but a bird as well!
Episode 33: Dinosaurs in the Snow
Buddy and his Pteranodon family ride the Dinosaur Train to the North Pole – where it’s cooler, and the skies are dark all winter long! The kids get to play in the snow and slide on a frozen pond for the first time.
Episode 45: Triassic Turtle
Don mistakes a shell for a rock and meets Adam Adocus, a turtle with a head he can retract into his shell for self-defense. The Pteranodon family travels to the Triassic and meets Pauline Proganochelys, another kind of turtle who shares her own methods of defending herself.