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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