{"id":2441,"date":"2011-04-04T18:25:44","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T22:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/?p=2441"},"modified":"2015-05-21T14:05:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T18:05:32","slug":"paintings-books-and-waxwings-with-olivia-bouler-conservationist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/paintings-books-and-waxwings-with-olivia-bouler-conservationist\/","title":{"rendered":"Paintings, books, and waxwings with Olivia Bouler, conservationist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n              <figure class=\"size-small alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/olivia.jpg\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"\" alt=\"Olivia Bouler\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption>Olivia poses with her book before a portrait of Louis Agassiz Fuertes, one of the premier bird artists of the 20th century. <em>Photo by Tim Gallagher.<\/em><\/figcaption>\n              <\/figure>\n            <\/div>\n<p>About 400 people piled into the Visitor Center at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology on Saturday. Maybe half of them were kids\u2014tots in strollers, gangly 6-year-olds, a boy scout troop\u2014and they had come to see a conservationist not much older than themselves: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/oliviasbirds\">Olivia Bouler<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group sidebar-alignright sidebar-space order-bottom\"><!--HubSpot Call-to-Action Code --><span class=\"hs-cta-wrapper\" id=\"hs-cta-wrapper-a8fe3c9a-217b-40fd-b1ff-2bb76ebe2cf3\"><span class=\"hs-cta-node hs-cta-a8fe3c9a-217b-40fd-b1ff-2bb76ebe2cf3\" id=\"hs-cta-a8fe3c9a-217b-40fd-b1ff-2bb76ebe2cf3\"><!--[if lte IE 8]><div id=\"hs-cta-ie-element\"><\/div><![endif]--><a href=\"http:\/\/cta-redirect.hubspot.com\/cta\/redirect\/95627\/a8fe3c9a-217b-40fd-b1ff-2bb76ebe2cf3\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"hs-cta-img\" id=\"hs-cta-img-a8fe3c9a-217b-40fd-b1ff-2bb76ebe2cf3\" style=\"border-width:0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/no-cache.hubspot.com\/cta\/default\/95627\/a8fe3c9a-217b-40fd-b1ff-2bb76ebe2cf3.png\"  alt=\"New self-paced course: Learn How to Identify Bird Songs, Click to Learn More\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><\/span><script charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/js.hscta.net\/cta\/current.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> hbspt.cta.load(95627, 'a8fe3c9a-217b-40fd-b1ff-2bb76ebe2cf3', {}); <\/script><\/span><!-- end HubSpot Call-to-Action Code -->\r\n<!--<span class=\"hs-cta-wrapper\" id=\"hs-cta-wrapper-394b2cc2-4447-4677-b18b-d2f2de5b57cd\">\r\n    <span class=\"hs-cta-node hs-cta-394b2cc2-4447-4677-b18b-d2f2de5b57cd\" id=\"hs-cta-394b2cc2-4447-4677-b18b-d2f2de5b57cd\">-->\r\n        <!--[if lte IE 8]><div id=\"hs-cta-ie-element\"><\/div><![endif]-->\r\n        <!--<a href=\"http:\/\/cta-redirect.hubspot.com\/cta\/redirect\/95627\/394b2cc2-4447-4677-b18b-d2f2de5b57cd\"  target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"hs-cta-img\" id=\"hs-cta-img-394b2cc2-4447-4677-b18b-d2f2de5b57cd\" style=\"border-width:0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/no-cache.hubspot.com\/cta\/default\/95627\/394b2cc2-4447-4677-b18b-d2f2de5b57cd.png\"  alt=\"Join the Cornell Lab\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\r\n    <\/span>\r\n    <script charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/js.hscta.net\/cta\/current.js\"><\/script>\r\n    <script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n        hbspt.cta.load(95627, '394b2cc2-4447-4677-b18b-d2f2de5b57cd', {});\r\n    <\/script>\r\n<\/span>-->\r\n<!-- end HubSpot Call-to-Action Code -->\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Olivia&#8217;s pledge to help during last year&#8217;s BP oil spill caught the hearts of the nation and has raised more than $175,000 for conservation in the last year. Now she and her family are on a short book tour in support of a compilation of her warm, brash, and somehow attitude-perfect paintings, <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/Olivias-Birds\/Olivia-Bouler\/e\/9781402786655\/?itm=8&amp;USRI=olivia\"><em>Olivia&#8217;s Birds<\/em><\/a>. <span id=\"more-2441\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In person, Olivia was charming and effusive, as well as polite and down-to-earth. On breaks from book signing she flew a plush Pileated Woodpecker puppet around the Visitor Center, raising and lowering its red crest for effect. Later, she joined two of our visiting artists, Ernesto Hernandez-Fernandez and Jane Kim, and taught an art workshop with the visiting children.<\/p>\n<p>I sat down with Olivia during a pause in the activity and heard a bit about her visit. The family was staying with Dr. Steve Kress, the leader of <a href=\"http:\/\/projectpuffin.org\/\">Project Puffin<\/a>, whose office is at the Cornell Lab. Olivia&#8217;s younger brother, Jackson, has worked with Project Puffin, but he was most excited about Dr. Kress&#8217;s foosball table. They had spent the morning birding with our staff, finding a few <a href=\"http:\/\/allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/rusty_blackbird\/id\">Rusty Blackbirds<\/a> along the trails. Olivia seemed most jazzed about a <a href=\"http:\/\/allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/cedar_waxwing\/id\">Cedar Waxwing<\/a> and an <a href=\"http:\/\/allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/american_kestrel\/id\">American Kestrel<\/a>\u2014two birds she hadn&#8217;t yet seen in the wild, she told me.<\/p>\n<p>In her first letter to Audubon during the spill last year, Olivia mentioned that she loved birds and dreamed of going to Cornell someday. I asked her if she still felt that way after all the commotion of the last year. &#8220;Oh you better save a place for me,&#8221; she said. &#8220;You haven&#8217;t seen the last of me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then she gave everyone in the room a hug and left for a sightseeing tour of Ithaca. In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/oliviasbirds#!\/photo.php?fbid=182957438416702&amp;set=a.182956861750093.38046.102196836492763&amp;theater\">Facebook picture<\/a> her mom posted later in the day, Olivia&#8217;s standing in front of a waterfall. The Pileated Woodpecker puppet is soaring over her brother&#8217;s head, and their dad, James, is still wearing his Cornell name tag. 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