ShowID

3186

Event Date:

1/27/2022

Length:

00:29:15

Category:

Science

Producer

Smithsonian Institute

Project

Science How?

Comments

December 11, 2014 This video features Dr. Helen James, an ornithologist at the National Museum of Natural History. Have you ever considered how a species as abundant as the passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) could have gone extinct? Analyze their disappearance and consider what factors make birds vulnerable to extinction. Follow Helen into Hawaiian lava tubes to look for prehistoric evidence of bird life on the islands. See which bird species survived and which did not after humans arrived on the scene. Use modern tools and technologies to interpret bird extinctions.

Schedule Information:

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