AZFO Annual Meetings:

11th Annual Meeting- Cottonwood

October 20-22, 2017

The 11th annual AZFO state meeting is heading to Cottonwood for 2017! This year’s meeting will be held at the Quality Inn, minutes from the historic downtown Cottonwood and Clarkdale. The Cottonwood and surrounding area has many birding hotspots such as Deadhorse State Park and Tavasci Marsh, Mingus Mountain and let’s not forget the underexplored areas!

The meeting will feature mini-expeditions to a handful of the under-birded locations; presentations about ongoing research on the status, behavior, and distribution of Arizona birds; a chance to put your skills to the test with an audio and visual identification contest; and opportunities to learn about how you can become more involved with AZFO.

Meeting Highlights:

Friday- mini-expeditions and social hour
Saturday- all day meeting, social hour and banquet with keynote speaker
Sunday- mini-expeditions

Call for Papers and Posters:

If you are interested in presenting a paper or poster on the identification, status or distribution of Arizona birds, please review our Call for Papers and Posters here. Papers and posters may range from technical reports of original research to general surveys and studies. Abstracts of papers and posters from past AZFO meetings are available here. Deadline to submit an abstract is September 1, 2017. Please send your abstract to Jennie Macfarland at jmacfarlandATtucsonaudubon.org

Annual Meetings Feature:

Expert presentations on identification, status and distribution of Arizona birds

Presentations on where to go birding in Arizona by local experts

Reports on AZFO Activities such as Field Expeditions, Seasonal Reports

Sightings Database, the Online Journal, Web Page, Censuses

Find out how you can get involved with AZFO

Report from the Arizona Bird Committee

Bird identification quizzes

Sunday half-day field expeditions led by local experts

A chance to meet new friends and visit with old ones