Monday, November 30, 2009

Hummingbirds Magic in the Air

Hummingbirds Magic in the Air With Ann Johnson Prum
Thursday, December 3 at 5:00 pmYale Peabody Museum Auditorium
Preview Film Screening and Panel Discussion

Free Admission

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.” 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.

Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History170 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT
InfoTape (203) 432-5050 www.peabody.yale.edu/events

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