Our 2013 20th Anniversary Festival is now over – please mark your calendar for the 2014 festival, January 15-19. Registration opens 8:00 AM on September 1, 2013.

Wings Over Willcox is sponsoring two special tours in early 2014:

Presentation:"The Perils and Pitfalls of Birding "

Bill Thompson III is the editor/co-publisher of "Bird Watcher's Digest", America's longest-running magazine for birders. He's the author of numerous books on birds, including "Bird Watching For Dummies", "Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Bird Identification Challenges", "Identifying & Feeding Birds", and the just-published "Young Birder's Guide to Birds of North America". He edited a compilation of essays by Roger Tory Peterson for the book All Things Reconsidered: My Birding Adventures.

He writes a weekly blog, Bill of the Birds (billofthebirds.blogspot.com) and hosts a podcast called This Birding Life which receives more than 600,000 episode downloads annually.

Bill regularly speaks, guides, and performs at birding festivals (more...)

Julie Zickefoose started off as an illustrator of natural history subjects as a college freshman in 1976. A six-year stint as a field biologist with The Nature Conservancy's Connecticut Chapter proved a strong motivator both to learn more about ecosystems and to go back to drawing. Along the way, she began to write her own essays, studded with observations of birds and animals, and writing slowly crept into the forefront of her interests.

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