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  • Verde Valley Birding and Nature Festival: Arizona Venomous Snakes—identification and desert safety (Live Animals)

    Verde Villages Community Connection 4855 Broken Saddle Dr., Cottonwood, AZ, United States

    Arizona's Venomous Snakes—identification and desert safety, by Brett Smith of Sonoran Reptiles Reptiles are an often undervalued cornerstone in every environment, including your very own backyard. These animals play an extremely important role in maintaining homeostasis in most habitats around the world. Without snakes and other reptiles we would be overrun by vermin en masse...

    $15

  • Verde Valley Birding and Nature Festival: Advanced Bird ID: Watching Warblers with Homer Hansen

    Cottonwood Recreation Center 150 S. 6th St., Cottonwood, AZ, United States

    Watching warblers is a truly satisfying experience. This presentation will focus on characteristics, behaviors, and other clues for the identification of warblers and will be useful for the expert and beginner alike. Both visual and audio presentations of these diverse birds will enchant you and help with your identification skills. You may also want to...

    $30

  • Verde Valley Birding and Nature Festival: Keynote Banquet and Presentation by Melissa Fratello & Steven Prager

    Cottonwood Community Clubhouse 805 N. Main St., Cottonwood, AZ, United States

    Following a catered dinner, Melissa and Steve will share their talk. Melissa and Steve will discuss the theme of "Reciprocal Birding", sharing insights (and bloopers) from the writing of their recently published field guide Birds of Arizona and New Mexico, and the under-wielded power of birders to turn the tide on habitat and population declines. In their roles...

    $35 – $65

  • Verde Valley Birding and Nature Festival: Stoneman Lake Field Trip

    Dead Horse Ranch State Park Dead Horse Ranch State Park, Cottonwood, AZ, United States

    Stoneman Lake is one of only two natural lakes in Arizona and it is part of the Wet Beaver Creek Watershed. We travel to over 6000' elevation to the Mogollon Rim and enter Ponderosa pine country and then drop into the lake’s crater. Birding will include a variety of high desert, woodland and wetland birds....

    $75

  • Verde Valley Birding and Nature Festival: Sedona – Bubbling Ponds IBA & Page Springs Fish Hatchery Field Trip

    Dead Horse Ranch State Park Dead Horse Ranch State Park, Cottonwood, AZ, United States

    The Page Springs area is a favorite hangout for birds and birders alike. This trip will take you to one of the locals’ favorite hot spots on the banks of Oak Creek. Bubbling Ponds has been a project of the Northern Arizona Audubon Society with trails, invasive plant species eradication and habitat restoration and is...

    $80

  • Verde Valley Birding and Nature Festival: Rancho Tres Brisas Field Trip

    Dead Horse Ranch State Park Dead Horse Ranch State Park, Cottonwood, AZ, United States

    This field trip begins south of Camp Verde where we will turn off of Route 260 and onto the open grasslands of Wingfield Mesa. After birding here for sparrows, meadowlarks and other open-area-loving avian life we will descend off the Mesa to Rancho Tres Brisas. Rancho Tres Brisas is a family run working cattle ranch...

    $115