William Lishman (February 12, 1939 – December 30, 2017) was a Canadian sculptor, filmmaker, inventor, naturalist and public speaker, president of William Lishman & Associates Limited, Vice President of Paula Lishman Limited and Chair Emeritus of Operation Migration Inc. Described by the Toronto Star as a "dyslexic, colour-blind, wildly ...

威廉·丽仕曼 是一位世界闻名多才多艺的艺术家。 他的艺术生涯横跨三十年，其中包括两部获奖 电影 和不计其数的公共艺术作品。 有86英尺高的86年温哥华世博会主题艺术雕塑和一座占地2700平，植根于21世纪地貌元素的拱顶居家建筑。 他和他的7件雕塑作品出现在3D IMAX大片“Last Buffalo.”中。 威廉·丽仕曼 还是 超轻型飞机 的爱好者，也是1988年第一位带领鸟儿编队飞行的人。 在1993年他试验性的带领十六只野鹅从加拿大蒙特利尔飞到美国 弗吉尼亚，曾被ABC电台跟 …

2018年1月3日 · Lishman — an award-winning artist, writer and filmmaker — was the first person to lead a flight of geese with an aircraft, a feat that inspired the 1996 Oscar-nominated film Fly Away Home. He...

2024年12月24日 · Nicknamed “Father Goose,” Lishman was the first to teach Canadian geese to fly alongside him, using nothing more than his ultralight aircraft and an out-of-this-world idea. Let’s take a flight through the incredible life of Bill Lishman, the man who flew with geese, and see what it took to make history. The Birth of a Wild Idea

2018年1月2日 · Canadian artist, inventor and visionary Bill Lishman died Dec. 30. Lying in bed one night in 1985, Bill Lishman told his wife Paula that he was going to teach birds to fly with him. The...

2018年1月11日 · Bill Lishman’s truly remarkable life has been well documented since his passing, and his obituaries have revealed new details. For example, he’d mentioned that he left high school early and that he’d completed the credits for the Ontario matriculation certificate by correspondence.

Bill Lishman, a.k.a Father Goose, is the co-founder of the not-for-profit organization Operation Migration, which in 2001 made the world’s longest human-assisted migration with a flock of whooping cranes raised in captivity.

Bill Lishman used a microlight aircraft to teach endangered birds that were raised by humans to fly south to a wild...

Bill Lishman’s unique underground house was the culmination of years of research and countless hours of design. Why build underground?

Inspired by the film Skyward, in which Canada Geese are filmed flying behind a boat, Bill wondered if it were possible to teach geese to fly behind his ultralight aircraft. During the Early years Bill and his family videotaped their daily adventures and eventual success.