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EXTINCT / Canceled Edition: Ivory-billed Woodpecker

THREATENED / Backyard Songbirds: The Art Of Birding

RESTORED / Welcome to Egg Rock: Atlantic Puffin

Stand in the center of the room. The birds around you face a range of threats, and their future is closely tied to our own actions. 

Look in front of you. Migratory songbirds are in decline, with two-thirds of all North American bird species at risk of extinction due to climate change, habitat loss, bird strikes and other causes.

 Look to your right. A story of 50 years of on the ground conservation that turned the island of Eastern Egg Rock into the site of the world's first restored seabird colony. Will the threatened migratory songbirds be offered the same care as the Atlantic Puffin in Maine?

 Look to your left. Or will they share the fate of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, remembered only through museum collections and historical records?

In a world shedding birds at an hourly rate we are all connected. Our collective choices and individual actions determine not just the outcome for the species highlighted by these installations, but the kind of future we want for this planet.

In partnership with the National Audubon Society, the actions you take here will help ensure seabirds around the country have plenty to eat and to feed their chicks. Audubon is a leading nonprofit conservation organization with 120 years of science-based, community-driven impact, dedicated to protecting birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow. Learn more at audubon.org.

Thank you to the artists, ornithologists, and conservationists who have worked closely with me to make these exhibits possible.

 Terrie Frisbie, Nigel Calder, Dr. Donata Henry, Dr. Jennifer Coulson, Rachel Guillory, Kimberly Faux, Dr. Don Lyons, Dr. Mike Herz, Dr. Steve Kress, Amy Tingle, Paul Calder, Cars Stewart, Misha Heil, Meg Turner