Talks and Lectures, Films
Birding Program
Inspired by Bowerbirds
Free
Friday, April 23, 2010 at 7:45pm
Location: Phillips Library Auditorium
Artist-naturalist Mary Jo McConnell has traveled to a remote region of Papua New Guinea every year since 1992 to paint a group of bowers constructed by Vogelkop bowerbirds (Amblyornis inornata). Watch a brief PBS Frontline documentary about McConnell's remarkable odyssey to her field site, view examples of her striking bower paintings and listen as McConnell shares her observations of individual bower-makers that convinced her these birds are true artists.
Co-sponsored by the Essex County Ornithological Club. The E.C.O.C. meeting will be hel from 7:30-7:45 pm.
