Banerjee's talent and access to the remotest wilderness captured the attention of a Smithsonian curator. Originally arranged as an exhibit in the museum's prestigious Hall 10 gallery, poetic captions were penned and, very typically, fervent opinions clashed. But after the "Boxer rebellion," mysteriously, Banerjee's debut was relocated to a hallway leading to a loading dock, with revised didactic captions replacing the poetic and ardent legends originally conceived.

Banerjee prepared this caption before Senator Boxer's debate to accompany a photograph of a buff-breasted sandpiper on the coastal plan of the Jago River: "This species, a long-distance traveler that migrates each year from Argentina to the Arctic Refuge coastal plain to nest and rear their young, is one of the top five bird species at greatest risk if their habitat is disturbed."

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