NIU students who attend the live bird show during geography week should probably wear a hat.

Geography Awareness Week will begin Sunday and continue until Nov. 17.

The Raptor Rehabilitation and Propagation Project from Eureka, Mo., will present “Birds of Prey in our Modern World” on Tuesday at Montgomery Hall’s Terwilliger Auditorium. There will be two shows, one at 4 and another at 8 p.m.

The shows include a live bird program, in which the birds will be set free in the auditorium after a slide show on birds of prey, said geography professor Daniel Dillman.

“There will be a slide presentation about the efforts to preserve birds of prey,” Dillman said. “Quite a few of these birds will be shown and released.”

The project has been putting on this presentation for awhile, he said.

“They’re well-known for their work,” he said. “After they are here (at NIU), they will be putting on shows at other places like the College of DuPage.”

Other events for the week include:

A public lecture Monday on “Remote Sensing as a Window on the Environment” at Davis Hall room 121 at 8:40 p.m.

A public lecture Wednesday on “Meech Lake and Canadian Regionalism” at Davis Hall room 121 at 8:40 p.m.

On Thursday there will be two public lectures, “Population and Development: The Catastrophic Relationship,” at Davis Hall room 116 at 9:30 a.m. and another on “Gaining People, Losing Ground: Can the Balance be Equalized?” in Montgomery Hall’s Terwilliger Auditorium at 8:40 p.m.

Career day will be on Nov. 17 from 1 to 4 p.m. in Davis Hall rooms 119 and 217. Anyone interested in geography is welcome to attend. There will be information on career planning, job prospects and spring classes, Dillman said.

A nature adventure hike will end the week. The hike will be at the Russell Forest Preserve from 10:30 to 3:30 p.m. For more information contact Kenneth Bowden from the Geography department.