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OL. 4, NO. 3 Bird Protection - News - Conservation April 1965 
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PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY THE ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY 
Charles Lappen, NEWSLETTER Editor, 424 Green Bay Road, Highland Park, Illinois 
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SPOTLIGHTING THE JOINT CONVENTION OF THE I.A.S. AND THE IOWA _ORNITHOLOGISTS 
UNION ON MAY 14, 15 and 1 AT DAVENPORT PUBLIC MUSEUM, CONVENTION HEADQUARTERS 

1¢ I.A.S. Convention starts Friday evening, May 14, with an informal reception at 7:30 p.m. 
1 the lobby of the Davenport Public Museum, 12th and Division Sts., featuring the opening 
f an exhibit on "Regional Birds in Art." 
lese field trips are scheduled for Saturday, May 15, to Illinois areas: Loud Thunder Forest 
‘eserve, Blackhawk State Park, Sunset Park, Rock Island Arsenal, Cordova Quarry and 
rredosia Slough, 
1 Sunday, May 16, there will be field trips to the following Iowa areas: Credit Island, 
ick Creek Park, Lock #14,-Princeton Marshes, McCausland area, Dixon-Allen's Grove area, 
iskrat Slough, Weise Slough-Wildcat Den State Park, and Conesville-Lake Odessa. On both 
ys, trips will meet at the Davenport Levee, 
A.S. members on the Convention Program are: "Winter Movements of Buteos" -— slides, 
rrence Ingram, Apple River; "Hole Nesting Birds and How to Attract Them" - T. E. Musselman, 
he Bluebird Man," Quincy; "African Birds "—-slides--Turner Nearing, Decatur; "Pesticides 
nel Discussion" - Elton Fawks, East Moline, — 
I.A.S. Board meeting will be held at 9:30 on Saturday morning, and the I.A.S. Business 
eting will be at 3:30 p.m., both in the museum classroom, 
é Annual Banquet will be at 6:30 p.m, Saturday, at St. John's Methodist Church, 14th 
d Brady Sts., Davenport. pr, Alfred Bailey, Director, Denver Museum of Natural History, 
11 show his movie on "Birds of the Galapagos," 
All IAS members have now received in the mail a blue sheet called the 
Volunteer Application Form, Your help is needed and requested. If you 
have misplaced your copy, please write to Mrs, Ann Stukalo, IAS Corres- 
ponding Secretary, 455 West 38th St., Downers Grove, Ill, 60515, and 
request another copy. 

AN AUDUBON COUNCIL PLAN 
plan is being initiated to coordinate the activities of some 26 Audubon Societies in our 
rthern midwest area by the formation of a North Central Audubon Council, The ILLINOIS 
DUBON SOCIETY Board of Directors has approved this movement. The purpose of the Council 
to strengthen society programs at the local level, Aiivdal liaAtiy, 
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