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17th Annual Wings Over Willcox celebration
The annual celebration of thousands of Sandhill Cranes and other wintering birds is Jan. 14-17. This is your opportunity to learn more about the birds and other natural history subjects as well as past and present human life in the Sulphur Springs Valley. Tours include Sandhill Cranes - thousands up close and personal, southwest mountain birds, wildlife photography, beginning birdwatching, Muleshoe Ranch, valley farming, Willcox walking history, hawk stalks, sparrow seeks, grassland birds, ghost towns, botany, a working cattle ranch, local archeology, wetlands and woodlands and Chiricahua geology.
Free seminars cover a wide variety of topics for all ages (see story below).
Registration, tour departures and seminars are located at the Willcox Community Center on Stewart Street.
The daily trade fair at the Community Center has booths ranging from birding and field trip accessories, original art and photography to arts and crafts and natural resource and local history displays.
Saturday's banquet ($25 per person) will have speaker Rich Glinski, presenting "Getting a Clue from Burrowing Owls," demonstrating that the very existence of Burrowing Owls is dependent upon an array of critically important conservation decisions. He received his B.S. from the Univ. of Arizona and began studying Gray Hawks, later Mississippi Kites, Common Black-Hawks and raptors of the Gila watershed. He managed the non-game bird program for the Arizona Game & Fish Department from 1980-2000. Since 2003 he has managed an environmental education facility for Maricopa County Parks and Recreation Department.
Wings Over Willcox has something for everyone. Come learn more about our winter visitors as well as your surroundings and natural history of the valley. Tours are limited and many fill early. Contact the Willcox Chamber of Commerce at 384-2272, 800-200-2272 or go online at www.wingsoverwillcox.com to register.
Free seminars cover a wide variety of topics for all ages (see story below).
Registration, tour departures and seminars are located at the Willcox Community Center on Stewart Street.
The daily trade fair at the Community Center has booths ranging from birding and field trip accessories, original art and photography to arts and crafts and natural resource and local history displays.
Saturday's banquet ($25 per person) will have speaker Rich Glinski, presenting "Getting a Clue from Burrowing Owls," demonstrating that the very existence of Burrowing Owls is dependent upon an array of critically important conservation decisions. He received his B.S. from the Univ. of Arizona and began studying Gray Hawks, later Mississippi Kites, Common Black-Hawks and raptors of the Gila watershed. He managed the non-game bird program for the Arizona Game & Fish Department from 1980-2000. Since 2003 he has managed an environmental education facility for Maricopa County Parks and Recreation Department.
Wings Over Willcox has something for everyone. Come learn more about our winter visitors as well as your surroundings and natural history of the valley. Tours are limited and many fill early. Contact the Willcox Chamber of Commerce at 384-2272, 800-200-2272 or go online at www.wingsoverwillcox.com to register.
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C.E. Webster wrote on Jan 6, 2010 6:14 PM: