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The International Hummingbird Society: Sedona Hummingbird Festival – Hummingbird Highways in the Western U.S. and Their Most Important Flowers
July 29, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 11:45 am
$50 – $150
Presented by Marcy Scott, Author, Businesswoman, Garden Consultant
Over the many millennia that hummingbirds have been traversing the continent north of Mexico, several well-trodden routes have developed, as ever- increasing numbers of birds passed through and many nectar-bearing wildflowers responded to their presence by evolving to appeal to them. Learn about these vital nectar corridors through the mountains and deserts of the western United States, featuring some beautiful and iconic plants that now primarily depend upon hummingbirds to pollinate them and in turn fuel their epic migrations.
Biography
Marcy Scott is an avid birder, habitat garden consultant, and author of Hummingbird Plants of the Southwest (Rio Nuevo Publishers, 2015), the culmination of more than fifteen years of work. Along with her landscape-designer husband, Jimmy Zabriskie, she operates Robledo Vista Nursery near Las Cruces, New Mexico, specializing in regionally native landscape plants for birds and wildlife habitat. Together they have gradually developed a mini-refuge on their sliver of property along the Rio Grande, where they host hundreds of migrating hummingbirds each summer.
Part of the Sedona Hummingbird Festival
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