ST. LOUIS BIRDS COMING SOUTH FOR AUDUBON TALK

Representatives of the St. Louis-based World Bird Sanctuary will bring some fine feathered friends to Cape Girardeau Monday.

Ornithologists and birds will be here for a meeting of the Four Seasons Audubon Society to be held at 7 p.m. in Room 121 of Rhodes Hall on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University. The public is invited.

Hawks, owls, falcons and vultures are among the birds that appear in the World Bird Sanctuary's presentations, which closes with the national symbol, the bald eagle.

Some birds will be allowed to fly in the lecture hall.

Walter C. Crawford, the ornithologist who founded the World Bird Sanctuary in 1977, said the purpose of the organization's presentations is to motivate people to act on behalf of birds or other species.

"We want to get people involved in conservation issues," he said.

The sanctuary is one of North America's largest conservation facilities for birds. It has a full-time staff of 32 at six locations in the St. Louis area and one in Wisconsin.