Annual FLAP Bird Display Returns to ROM on Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Annual FLAP Bird Display Returns to ROM

on Wednesday, March 9, 2016

 

Fatal Light Awareness Program (FLAP) will present its annual display of migratory birds that have died during collisions with Toronto buildings at the ROM on Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 9:30 am. The event, part of FLAP’s public awareness campaign, will educate ROM visitors on the threat that reflective windows, lights and other features of the city skyline pose to birds. The specimens on display are later donated to the ROM for use in research, collections and education. The event also features the launch of a new video game, Clash of Talons, developed during the ROM’s Game Jam event last fall and based on the Museum’s Ornithology collection. 

WHAT:             Fatal Light Awareness Program (FLAP) display in the ROM’s Rotunda

  • Specimens of over 2,100 migratory birds that have died during collision with Toronto buildings
  • Over 90 different bird species represented, including species at risk
  • Clash of the Talons video game demonstration

WHO:              Dave Ireland, Managing Director, ROM Biodiversity; Mark Peck, ROM Ornithology Technician; Michael Measure, Executive Director, FLAP; Francesco Ciarlandini, Director, Last Hour Games

WHERE:            ROM Rotunda, 100 Queen’s Park, Toronto

WHEN:            Wednesday, March 9, 2016

                        Doors open at 9:00 am. Remarks at 9:30 am

                        Public testing of the Clash of Talons video game from 10:00 to 11:00 am in the ROM’s Earth Rangers Studio, in the Life in Crisis: Schad Gallery of Biodiversity

 

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