Audubon Magazine is asking people for their examples of Hollywood movies totally blowing it with their bird facts. An example provided by Greg Butcher, director of bird conservation:
“In Dances with Wolves, a bunch of doves is shown on the ground near Kevin Costner. One of them is a Ringed Turtle-Dove, which is basically a domestic version of an African dove. Definitely not something that would have been found in the Wild West 140 years ago.”
Back in 2007, Audubon California’s Graham Chisholm penned an article for the Washington Post on this very subject, and listed a bunch of his own, including: “”Pearl Harbor” gives us the first recorded sighting of a Western scrub jay outside the mainland — on a golf course in Oahu.” Moreover, he asks, “How many times must we watch a bald eagle soar across the movie screen, paired with the cry of a red-tailed hawk in Dolby Digital surround sound?”
Feel free to share your examples, either on the Audubon Magazine blog, or right here in our comments section.
