AZFO Newsletter

February-March 2026


AZFO Annual Meeting

September 18-20


Save the date! We will be meeting at the Pinewood Country Club in Munds Park, just south of Flagstaff, on the weekend of September 18-20.


Add the dates to your calendar to make sure you join this always-informative and always-fun event with new and old friends from across the state! Updates to come.



May 9th is

Global Big Day


We at AZFO hope you will participate in the annual Global Big Day spring migration count in Arizona on Saturday, 9 May. This is an eBird-coordinated event. To help participants get involved, AZFO maintains a list of Big Day coordinators by county. With hundreds of volunteers in the field, we will strive to capture a "snapshot" of the spring migration. You can be flexible about the time you spend in the field, or you can just count birds in your yard. And most of all, have fun!

For more info or to contact a coordinator Click Here

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2026 AZFO Membership Dues


Did you know that all AZFO memberships renew annually on January 1 ?


Thank you to all of you who have already paid your 2026 Arizona Field Ornithologists membership dues, either when you paid with your 2025 annual meeting registration or through the recent email reminder. If you are unsure as to whether you have paid your dues, send an email to the treasurer as follows: treasurer@azfo.org.

Pay dues now HERE


Your dues finance the various programs that support our mission of increasing the knowledge of the changing status, identification, and distribution of Arizona's birdlife.

Our Online Journal,

Arizona Birds


If you have not looked at our ourstanding online journal lately, you will find that we have a number of new contributions of interest.

Read on!

Photo by G. Rosenberg

Enjoy These Recent Items in Arizona Birds


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20 Years of Counting Wintering Raptors: The Santa Cruz Raptor Count

The Role of the Arizona Bird Committee in the Age of eBird


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