Science on Screen: A BIRDER'S GUIDE TO EVERYTHING

Fifteen-year-old birding fanatic David Portnoy (Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Road) thinks he’s made the discovery of a lifetime in this charmer of a film from director and Newton native Rob Meyer.

On the eve of his widower father’s second wedding, David spots what may just be the extinct Labrador duck. He and the two other stalwart members of the local Young Birders Society, joined by their headstrong photographer classmate Ellen, take off on a rollicking, interstate road trip in search of a rare bird and elusive answers to teenage questions large and small.

Before the film, birding legend Kenn Kaufman, author of the memoir Kingbird Highway, the birding equivalent of On the Road, and a consultant on the film, speaks about the mysteries surrounding extinct birds. He joins with director Rob Meyer after the screening for Q&A.