Wednesday, 21 March 2012


The Lost Bird Project

The McGill Wildlife Association is pleased to announce the screening of the film, The Lost Bird Project (for only the second time in the Montreal area) in Room R2-045 of the Macdonald-Stewart Building from 10:00 – 11:00 AM, Thursday, March 29, 2012. 

Admission is free.

This moving documentary is about the creation of 5 large bronze sculptures of North American birds, which have been driven to extinction ---- Passenger Pigeon, Great Auk, Heath Hen, Carolina Parakeet and Labrador Duck.


The film follows the sculptor, Todd McGrain, who negotiates for permission to place the large sculptures in the last places where the birds were sighted.  

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