The Marion Natural History Museum is hosting “Birds of Coastal Massachusetts” with Vernon Laux on Friday March 23 at 7:00 pm at the Marion Music Hall.
Vern Laux is a bird expert, butterfly enthusiast, international bird tour leader, columnist and author. Vern has birded extensively all over North America and visited all 7 continents, including over 20 trips to the Antarctic, to observe, birds, and some of the most spectacular wildlife and scenery on the planet. He has written thousands of newspaper columns about birds and the natural world appearing in the New York Times, the Cape Cod Times, the Martha’s Vineyard Times, Vineyard Gazette, and Nantucket’s Inquirer and Mirror, published magazine articles in a variety magazines including Birder’s World and Birding, and is author of the book Bird News-Vagrants And Visitors On A Peculiar Island.
He is on the radio the first Monday of every month as the permanent guest on The Point with Mindy Todd on the Cape and Island National Public Radio stations WCAI, WNAN and WZAI to discuss and take phone calls about birds-it is very popular. He also writes and records for broadcast a weekly commentary called Bird News that airs 2 days a week.
Passionate about wildlife, especially birds and butterflies, his favorite group is shorebirds, fabulous globetrotting migrants that fly to the “ends of the earth” twice annually.
Vern was the ABC News “Person of the Week” with host Peter Jennings, the last Friday in August 2004 after finding the rarest bird in the Americas so far this century a Red-footed Falcon. He lives on Nantucket and is the Resident Naturalist, Land Manager and Education Director for the Linda Loring Nature Foundation.
The program will be held on Friday March 23 at 7:00 pm at the Marion Music Hall, located at 164 Front Street in Marion Mass.. Cost is $6.00/person. To register in advance please contact the Marion Natural History Museum, P.O. Box 644, Marion, MA 02738, ph# 508-748-2098, or go online to www.marionmuseum.org.