{"id":6661,"date":"2015-12-02T16:08:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T21:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/?p=6661"},"modified":"2015-12-02T16:09:07","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T21:09:07","slug":"the-messenger-film-screening-and-discussion-on-december-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/the-messenger-film-screening-and-discussion-on-december-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Messenger: Film Screening and Discussion on December 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The_Messenger_Website\"Join Wayne Petersen, Mass Audubon’s Director of Important Bird Areas Program, and Joan Walsh, Mass Audubon’s Director of Bird Monitoring,\u00a0on Thursday, December 3 at 7:30 pm for the Massachusetts premiere of the new documentary The Messenger: Imagine a World Without Birdsong at The Regent Theatre in Arlington<\/a> as well as a post-screening discussion.<\/p>\n

Purchase tickets<\/a><\/p>\n

Film Synopsis<\/strong><\/p>\n

For thousands of years, songbirds were regarded by mankind as messengers from the gods. Today, these creatures\u2014woven inextricably into the fabric of our environment\u2014are vanishing at an alarming rate. Under threat from climate change, pesticides, and more, populations of hundreds of species have dipped dramatically.<\/p>\n

As scientists, activists, and bird enthusiasts investigate this phenomenon, amazing secrets of the bird world come to light for the first time in this acclaimed and visually thrilling documentary. Find out what\u2019s killing our songbirds, and what can be done about it. As in ancient times, songbirds may once again be carrying a message to humans\u2014one that we ignore at our own peril.<\/p>\n

Watch the trailer<\/a> at the official film site.<\/p>\n

About Wayne Petersen<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wayne R Petersen\u00a0is Director of the Massachusetts Important Bird Areas (IBA) Program at the\u00a0Mass Audubon<\/a>. He was the Field Ornithologist at Mass Audubon for 15 years before assuming the position of IBA Director in 2005. As co-author of\u00a0<\/i>Birds of Massachusetts\u00a0<\/i>(1993) and co-editor of the\u00a0Massachusetts Breeding Bird Atlas 1 & 2<\/i><\/a>\u00a0<\/i>(2003, 2013), his knowledge of the habitats, distribution, and status of the Commonwealth\u2019s bird life is both extensive and wide-ranging.<\/p>\n

As a New England Regional Editor for North American Birds<\/i> magazine and editor of the New England Christmas Bird Count for National Audubon, Wayne\u2019s knowledge of the seasonal distribution of New England bird life give him a wide perspective when thinking about Important Bird Areas in Massachusetts and beyond. In 2005 Wayne was the recipient of the American Birding Association\u2019s Ludlow Griscom Award for outstanding contributions in regional ornithology.<\/p>\n

About Joan Walsh<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joan Walsh has been watching, and learning from, birds for 35 years and has been the Director of Bird Monitoring at Mass Audubon since 2006. During her career she has focused on research that has direct implications for bird conservation. This interest led to enlisting hundreds of citizen scientists for the creation of the highly regarded\u00a0Massachusetts Breeding Bird Atlas 2<\/i><\/a>\u00a0and two\u00a0State of the Birds of Massachusetts<\/i><\/a>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n

She was a Farallon Island biologist where she studied Elephant Seals, Tufted Puffins, Brandt\u2019s Cormorants, Western Gulls, and even did a little Great White Shark work.\u00a0She went to graduate school in Georgia, where she studied Wood Storks, and was the former Director of Research at Cape May Bird Observatory in NJ. Her formative years as an ornithologist were spent on Great Gull Island, NY, home to the largest colonies of Common and Roseate Terns in the North Atlantic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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