Exhibit is preview of outdoors

Birding enthusiasts who prefer to practice their hobby from the comfort of the great indoors can enjoy a display of area wildlife in air-conditioned comfort at the Civic Center in the city hall complex, 710 W. Ave. A.

There, a bird habitat exhibit, donated by Jo Leta Gavit and her sons, Bill and Brad, in memory of her husband, Lynn Gavit, is on display in the foyer.

Lynn Gavit, who died in January 1995, was an avid fisherman, pharmacist and realtor in Port Aransas.

The bird habitat depicts a scientifically accurate simulated marsh/mangrove environment. The University of Texas Marine Science Institute provided a list of plant specimens and collection locations.

Birds include scaup, sanderling, sandpiper, dunlin, little green heron, common loon, snowy egret, common tern, black-bellied whistling (tree) duck, rail and ring-billed gull.

The exhibit is open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.