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Birding the Sedona Wetlands Preserve

Photo Mama American Coot by Sam Hough

Mama American Coot                  Photo by Sam Hough 2014

Sedona AZ (April 29, 2014) – The Sedona Wetlands Preserve is a 27-acre marshland utilizing the Sedona Waste Water Reclamation Plant’s treated effluent. The local Keep Sedona Beautiful organization believes that the reclamation plant is a successful birding hotspot, and an example of ecotourism for Sedona and the Verde Valley.

Hundreds of migrating shorebirds stop over to rest and forage at the Sedona Wetlands Preserve before continuing their journey north. Wintering waterfowl make these ponds their home to escape frozen lakes up north. Furthermore, many resident birds are beginning to breed along the water’s edge.

Come learn how the Wetlands were developed and what birds are being seen at the Preserve when Dena Greenwood presents “Birding the Sedona Wetlands Preserve” at the KSB Preserving the Wonder™ Speaker Series on Wednesday, May 14, 2014. The evening will begin at 5:30 p.m. with refreshments provided. The birding presentation will begin at 5:45 p.m.

Dena Greenwood

Dena Greenwood

Greenwood began her birding adventures 25 years ago as an Arizona State Park Ranger leading bird walks at local parks and developing bird lists for Slide Rock, Red Rock and Dead Horse Ranch State Parks. She received her graduate degree in environmental biology with an emphasis in ornithology, botany and geology and has conducted bird research for Colorado Plateau Research Station, National Park Service, and the U.S. Forest Service on the Verde, Colorado, and San Juan River corridors.

Dena is a Northern Arizona Audubon Board member and a founding committee member of the Verde Valley Bird and Nature Festival.

Keep Sedona Beautiful welcomes the community and visitors alike to its monthly Preserving the Wonder™ Speaker Series, which takes place at its historic Pushmataha Center on 360 Brewer Road, Sedona. The Speaker Series, now held the second Wednesday each month from September to June 2014, begins at 5:30 p.m. with refreshments.

The KSB speaker series presents an interesting diversity of programs relevant to the unique environment of our region. Keep Sedona Beautiful, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that, by acting through the stewardship of its members and volunteers, is committed to protecting and sustaining the unique scenic beauty and natural environment of the Greater Sedona Area.

For more information about the Keep Sedona Beautiful organization, call 928.282.4938 or visit www.keepsedonabeautiful.org.

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1 Comment

  1. Fran says:

    Are you serious KSB? Bad water use gets your approval? What’s happened to your advocacy for Sedona environment? A few thirsty birds in a desert drawn to artificial ponds does not make it right to do. It falsely allows a source of water (bad) where none should be. Oak Creek waterway yes. Sewage no.

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