With a sadness that we know listeners will share, we report that birding expert and longtime WCAI contributor Vernon Laux died early on January 21, at Nantucket Cottage Hospital. He was 60. Vern traveled the world looking for rare and common birds alike, but always maintained that some of the best birding in the world was right here on the Cape and Islands.
Listen to Sean Corcoran's tribute, "WCAI's Vern Laux: He Helped Us Understand the Birds."
Vern introduced thousands of people to birding through his talks and newspaper commentaries and was the resident naturalist at the Linda Loring Nature Foundation.
His first bird reports on WCAI appeared in 2001, and he became a regular contributor in 2002.
We will be paying tribute to Vern on air over the coming days, and will remember him with a special program on The Point on his birthday, March 17th.
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