One of only 120 copies of John James Audubon’s “The Birds of America” believed to still exist is on permanent display in Bowdoin’s George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives.

As News and Media Relations Director Doug Cook explains, the library has begun making an event of the monthly page-turning.

A Real Page Turner: Flipping Out Over Audubon’s ‘Birds of America’ from Bowdoin College on Vimeo.

Bowdoin received its copy of The Birds of America in 1955 as a gift from Roscoe Hupper, a member of the Class of 1907 and the Board of Overseers, in memory of his mother, Mary Alden Hupper.