The Curse of the Labrador Duck Lecture September 30, 2009

When Chilton was asked to write about the extinct Labrador ducks for Birds of North America, he embarked on a journey to document every taxidermy specimen of the Labrador duck in the world. Chilton will share stories of his travels, featuring an assortment of weird and wonderful adventures in theft, wartime atrocities, insane millionaires, intrigue in the Middle East, and skinny-dipping all chronicled in his book The Curse of the Labrador Duck: My Obsessive Quest to the Edge of Extinction.