Arizona Field Ornithologists
Fifth Annual State Meeting
21-23 October 2011
Arizona Game and Fish Department office
5000 W. Carefree Hwy. (just west of I-17)
Phoenix, AZ 85086
Register Online click here.
(please indicate in the Comments Section of the Registration Form in which specific Mini-Expeditions you are interested in participating)
Featuring: Presentations, Dinner Speaker, Mini-Field Expeditions
List of accommodations click here
Area Restaurants click here
Detailed Saturday Meeting Agenda click here
Mini- Field Expeditions Details click here
Friday, 21 October
Afternoon Mini-Expedition; Hassayampa River Preserve Birding Blitz (Off Trail) – Leaders, Christina Kondrat-Smith & Troy Corman
Saturday, 22 October
8:00 A.M. -- 4 :30 P.M.
Used Book Sale
WANTED: USED BOOKS, we ask for donations of gently used bird-related books and audiovisual materials. Donations are tax deductible. Books must be received by 15 October.
To arrange pick-up of books in the Phoenix area, email Marceline Vandewater at fieldtrips@cazba.org or bring them to any of the
Audubon meetings.
Invited Presentations on Arizona Birdlife and Research
Presentations will include the following Papers and Posters (click here for full abstracts);
Papers
- The Arizona Bald Eagle Management Program
- Shades of Gray: Changes in Abundance of Gray Hawk Nests on the San Pedro River over 13 Years
- Detection Rates of Thrashers Vary Between Seasons and Survey Methods
- Mexican Ducks (Anas platyrhynchos diazi) in Arizona: An Overview of Identification and Distribution
- First Statewide Surveys of Wintering Mountain Plovers in Arizona
Posters
- The Probable Breeding of Cassin's Sparrow (Peucaea cassinii) in Pinal County
- Arizona Golden Eagle Management
- Rapid effects of capture and handling on circulating hormone concentrations in the male Rufous-winged Sparrow, Peucaea carpalis
- The influence of urbanization on the reproductive phenology and morphometrics of the Abert’s Towhee
- Corticosterone's relationship with parental investment in a Sonoran Desert passerine, the Rufous-winged Sparrow, Puecaea carpalis
- Bird Monitoring Expeditions to Mexico, 2008 and 2010
Bird Photo and Audio Quiz
Other Reports:
Reports and future plans for such AZFO Activities as Field Expeditions, Seasonal Reports, Sightings Database, the Online Journal, Web Page, annual Avian Censuses
Report from the Arizona Bird Committee
Elections of the AZFO board and officers
Location:
Arizona Game and Fish Department office
5000 W. Carefree Hwy.
Saturday, 23 October
4:30 P.M.
Social Hour at Azool Grill
Location:click here
6:30 P.M.
Catered dinner with Keynote speaker
Richard Glinski, editor of Raptors of Arizona, will speak on, "Arizona Raptors: Off and On the Radar."
Location:
Arizona Game and Fish Department office
5000 W. Carefree Hwy.
Sunday, 23 October
Mini-Expeditions: click here
Agua Fria National Monument – Leader: Mike Nicosia
Morgan City Wash Area – Leader: Troy Corman
Lower Verde River – Leaders: Marceline VandeWater & Janet Witzeman
Meeting Details
Costs:
Catered Buffet Dinner
featuring barbecue or vegetarian lasagna for $24.00, which is due by 15 October and nonrefundable after 20 October.
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.
For more information contact:
Doug Jenness
email: d_jenness@hotmail.com
Coordinator for AZFO statewide meeting