Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Hummingbirds, Magic in the Air

Hummingbirds, Magic in the Air
With Ann Johnson Prum
Thursday, December 3 5:00 pm

Yale Peabody Museum Preview Film Screening and Panel DiscussionFree Admission
Hummingbirds are one of nature's most interesting paradoxes: the tiniest of birds, they yet qualify as among the toughest and most energetic creatures on the planet. New knowledge gained from current scientific breakthroughs in hummingbird biology makes this a perfect time to focus on these shimmering, flashing jewels of the natural world. Stunningly beautiful high-definition, high speed footage of hummingbirds in the wild combined with high-tech presentations of their remarkable abilities help us to understand the world of hummingbirds as we never have before.In this presentation producer and cinematographer Ann Johnson Prum previews her new one-hour documentary, "Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air," which was commissioned by the PBS series Nature. Ms. Prum's Coneflower Productions, based in New Haven, produces science and natural history programs for broadcast.

Her documentary "Creating the Peabody's Torosaurus: Dinosaur Science, Dinosaur Art" won a regional Emmy in 2007 at the National Television Academy's 30th Boston/New England Emmy Awards.The film screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Prum and two of the biologists featured in the film: Postdoctoral Associate Chris Clark and doctoral candidate Teresa Feo in the Yale Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. Yale Peabody Museum Curator of Vertebrate Zoology Richard O. Prum, the William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology, will moderate the discussion.

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