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Arizona Field Ornithologists

8th Annual Meeting

Globe-Miami

October 3-5, 2014

Bullion Plaza Auditorium

150 N. Plaza Circle
Miami, AZ 85539

For Google Map click here

 

Register Online- click here

 

Papers and Posters Guidelines click here

Information on youth Scholarships click here

 

Featuring:  Presentations, Dinner Speaker, Mini-Field Expeditions

List of accommodations click here

Area Restaurants suggestions click here

Detailed Meeting Agenda click here (draft)

Mini- Field Expeditions Details click here

 

Friday, 3 October

 

Afternoon Mini-Expeditions click here;

For Friday trips- pre-register by sending an email to the trip leader for the Friday expedition you wish to participate in.

  • Jones Water Campground
  • Boyce Thompson Arboretum State Park
  • Arnett Creek
 

Saturday, 4 October

Bell's Sparrow, photo by Chris McCreedy

 

MEETING

8:30 A.M. -- 4 :45 P.M.

 

Detailed Agenda click here (draft)

 

Used Book Sale

 

WANTED: USED BOOKS, we ask for donations of gently used bird-related books and audiovisual materials. Donations are tax deductible. Books should be received by 1 October, or brought to the meeting.

 

Local contacts:

Flagstaff area- Geoff Bland at GeoffgroovesAThotmail.com

Phoenix area- Marceline VandeWater at MarcelineATermaroni.net

Tucson area - Jenness at D_JennessAThotmail.com

 

Invited Presentations on Arizona Birdlife and Research

 

Presentations will include the following Papers: for full abstracts click here.

Papers

  • Habitat, Diet, and Density: Gray Hawk Expansion on the San Pedro River, Ariana LaPorte
  • Plumage Differences and Wintering Distributions of Sagebrush and Bell’s Sparrows in California and Arizona, Chris McCreedy
  • A Survey of Spring Migration at Lake Havasu with an Emphasis on Waterbirds, David Vander Pluym
  • Nonbreeding Season Occupancy of Gray Vireos at Kofa NWR, Chrissy Kondrat-Smith
  • Present Status of Mexican Ducks (Anas platyrhynchos diazi) in Arizona and the Bird's Expansion into Tropic-Subtropic Wetlands, David Brown
  • An Update on Neotropic Cormorants in Arizona: Using Citizen Science Data to Explore Trends in Range Expansion, Eric Hough
  • Prolonged Physiological Effects of capture and Brief Restraint in Male Rufous-winged Sparrows, Pierre Deviche
  • Lesser Nighthawk Video, Larry Arbanas
  • Geo-tagging Purple Martins on the Lower San Pedro River, Jennie MacFarland

Poster

  • Breeding Ecology and the Use of Nesting Platforms of the Cordilleran Flycatcher (Empidonax occidentalis) in Southwest Colorado, Darrah, A. J.1 and van Riper III

         

Bird Photo and Audio Quiz

Other Reports:

Reports and future plans for such AZFO Activities, Field Expeditions, Seasonal Reports, the Online Journal, and the AZFO Web site

Elections of the AZFO board and officers

 

SOCIAL HOUR

5:00 P.M. -- 6 :00 P.M.

Mexican Duck, photo by David Vander Pluym

 

                    Wild Horses Saloon (Google map here)       

DINNER

6 :00 P.M.

                    Bullion Plaza Auditorium

 

Keynote Speaker:

 

Dr. Charles van Riper III, Station Leader for the US Geological Survey SBSC Sonoran Desert Research Station, who will be speaking to our theme “Arizona’s Changing Avifauna.”

 

Sunday, 5 October

        

        Mini-Expeditions: click here

        For Sunday trips- registration will be in-person during the meeting

  • San Carlos Reservoir and wastewater ponds
  • Sierra Ancha Area
  • Pinal Mountain
  • Haunted Canyon

  


Meeting Details

       Costs:

       Registration (in advance or walk-ins welcome):

    AZFO Members:  No cost.

    Nonmembers: Registration $10, deducted from your annual dues if you decide to join AZFO that weekend.
     

    Register Online

    Online Registration: click here

        
For more information contact:

Doug Jenness
email: d_jennessAThotmail.com
Coordinator for AZFO statewide meeting


 

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