Due to its popularity, Tim McNeil, director of the UC Davis Design Museum, is pleased to announce a one-week extension for “Instinct Extinct: The Great Pacific Flyway,” an installation that celebrates the biology, beauty and bounty of the Pacific Flyway. The show now runs through Nov. 19.

The Pacific Flyway is viewed through a range of lenses: wildlife habitat, agricultural heartland, recreational commons, conservation story and inspirational phenomena.

The exhibition is a partnership of UC Davis art professors Glenda Drew and Ann Savageau, Valerie Constantino from Sacramento State University, and various organizations, associations, agencies, scientists and scholars.

“We hope that this exhibition conveys the unique character of this irreplaceable treasure and serves as a springboard for awareness and action,” Drew said.

“ ‘Instinct Extinct’ brings together an ensemble of thought-provoking and beautiful works by three accomplished artist/designers,” said Tim McNeil, Design Museum director.

“Their installations strike a balance between the magical and the vulnerable like the Great Pacific Flyway itself — and point to the important role creative minds can play to encourage the preservation and conservation of our natural environment.

“The exhibition is accompanied by an installation of real bird wings from the UC Davis Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology, depicting the many species of birds that use the Pacific Flyway. They are a source of design inspiration. The shape of a bird wing represents the perfect marriage of form and function, a wing’s surface displays an array of color, texture and pattern,” McNeil said.

The Pacific Flyway is a major north-south flyway for migratory birds, extending from Alaska to Patagonia. Every year, migratory birds travel some or all of this distance both in spring and in fall, following food sources, heading to breeding grounds or traveling to overwintering sites.

The Design Museum is in Cruess Hall, Room 124, open from noon to 4 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, and from 2 to 4 p.m. Sundays. Entrance is free.

For more information, visit arts.ucdavis.edu/design-museum.