Community Event: Art & Conservation Night

Art & Conservation Night

Please join us on Wednesday, December 13 from 6:30 to 10:00 pm at the Anchorage Museum for the 2023 Alaska Bird Conference community event: Art and Conservation. Here we will explore the role of art in bird conservation and what every individual can do to #BringBirdsBack.

Presentations By

7 p.m. – Dr. Pete Marra
Dean of the Earth Commons: Georgetown University’s Institute of Environment and Sustainability

8 p.m. – Gerrit Vyn
Conservation Media Producer for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology

with local Artist Market, conservation non-profits, no host bar (card only) and light refreshments in the atrium.

Cost is $30/person. Kids up to 18 get in free.

Bird Conservation for the 21^st Century

Dr. Pete Marra

Migration is one of the most engaging phenomena of the animal world and one epitomized by birds. Today, over 50% of North America’s migratory species are declining at unprecedented rates – and for most of these species we don’t know why. They face an assortment of threats throughout the annual cycle – habitat loss, cats, collisions, pesticides – all issues we can reduce to restore bird populations. The Road to Recovery is a new conservation effort that proposes to use targeted and actionable natural and social science to recover bird populations before they become extinct. Marra will take us on a hemispheric journey to discover the unknown migrations of migratory birds, explaining the latest technologies used for tracking and why it’s up to us to uncover the secrets of their biology and the threats they face to protect these marvelous species.

Capturing the Lives of Alaska’s Birds

Gerrit Vyn

From the outer Aleutian Islands to drifting sea ice in the Chukchi Sea to remote tundra field camps on the arctic coastal plain, Gerrit has traveled to the fringes of our wildest state to capture the sights, sounds, and spectacles of birdlife, many for the first time. Visit Alaska’s largest seabird colonies on St. George Island, witness an intimate moment at the nest of a Bar-tailed Godwit, and see the massive migration of King Eiders as they head north to breed.