Bird expert, butterfly enthusiast, international bird tour leader, columnist and author Vern Laux is coming to the Marion Musical Hall on March 23 at 7 p.m. The cost is $6.

Laux has toured North America and the world—including more than 20 trips to the Antarctic—to observe birds, wildlife and scenery on the planet.

Laux was the ABC News “Person of the Week” with host Peter Jennings in 2004 after finding the rarest bird in the Americas so far this century: a Red-footed Falcon.

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. He's 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.

He lives on Nantucket and is the Resident Naturalist, Land Manager and Education Director for the Linda Loring Nature Foundation.

To register, contact the Marion Natural History Museum at 508-748-2098, or visit www.marionmuseum.org.