Rosemary Mosco

Join cartoonist Rosemary Mosco of Bird and Moon to learn how humor and art can help birds and other wildlife, and discover the beauty of a familiar unloved bird: the city pigeon.

Rosemary is an author, illustrator, and speaker whose work connects people with the natural world.

She’s written and drawn for The New York Times, Audubon, Rewiring America, the PBS Kids show Elinor Wonders Why, Ranger Rick, and more, and makes a regular comic strip in the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Living Bird magazine. She creates acclaimed science books for kids and adults and the nature comic Bird and Moon, which won the National Cartoonists Society’s award for Best Online Short Form Comic and was the subject of an award-winning museum exhibit. Her climate change comics were exhibited at AAAS headquarters and the Peabody Essex Museum. She gives engaging talks and workshops to groups of all ages.

Rosemary is a graduate of the Field Naturalist Program. She served as a judge for a Festival of Bad Ad-hoc Hypotheses, judged a bird tattoo contest, and co-founded a week celebrating invertebrate butts.