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SPECIAL TO WEST HAWAII TODAY
“Living Endemic Birds of Hawaii” by Hawaii wildlife artist Marian Berger is back on exhibit, for one week only, from Tuesday to Feb. 27 at Volcano Art Center Gallery in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
The exhibit features prints of the original watercolor paintings representing 37 species of birds found only in Hawaii. The vision of this project has been to produce a limited edition masterpiece in the style of John James Audubon as a means of supporting critical work to ensure the survival of Hawaii’s endemic birds. Each image is printed in double elephant folio size (26-by-39.5 inches), after Audubon’s great work on the “Birds of North America,” with all individual birds painted lifesize.
The project, that resulted in the original exhibit, in January 2011, is a unique collaboration between the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, state Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Forestry and Wildlife, U.S. Geological Survey Biological Resources Discipline and private landowners. The Hawaii Endangered Bird Conservation Program comprises two captive breeding facilities, one at Keauhou Ranch in Volcano and the other in Makawao on Maui, and works at a number of field sites around Hawaii. Using intensive propagation and release techniques, the program aims to re-establish self-sustaining populations of critically endangered birds or augment existing ones. More than 1,000 chicks of many different Hawaiian species have been successfully raised by the program since 1993.
The exhibit features giclees priced individually, compared to the first exhibit where the original watercolor paintings sold only as a complete set.
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