Earth Day Book Club: A Feathered River Across the Sky
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 – Zoom Only – Registration Required
7:00 PM – 8:15 PM
Land of Lakes Bird Alliance invites you to our spring book club and Earth Day webinar. This year, we visit the theme of anthropogenic extinction through Joel Greenberg’s book, A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction.
We are pleased to host Mr. Greenberg in conversation with Minnesota’s own Laura Erickson, award-winning writer, birder, and ornithologist, on Wednesday, April 23, from 7:00-8:00 p.m. Central.
Please register for our free public program and read the book. By April 12th, submit questions about the book for Dr. Greenberg to contact@llbirdalliance.org.
Joel Greenberg is a research associate of the Chicago Academy of Sciences Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum and the Field Museum. Author of three books, including A Natural History of the Chicago Region, Greenberg has taught natural history courses for the Morton Arboretum, Brookfield Zoo, and Chicago Botanic Garden. He helped spearhead Project Passenger Pigeon to focus attention on human-caused extinctions.
Laura Erickson is an award-winning author of 13 books about birds and has received multiple national, state, local, and organization awards for her conservation and education work and writing. She was a columnist and contributing editor for BirdWatching magazine and, since 1986, has been producing the long-running “For the Birds” radio program for many public and community radio stations. Laura has been a scientist, teacher, writer, licensed wildlife rehabilitator, blogger, public speaker, photographer, American Robin and Whooping Crane Expert for the popular Journey North educational website, and Science Editor at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
