DuPage Birding Club

Arizona is a goldmine for birders who come to see species they can’t find in much of the U.S., with the added bonuses of great weather and nonstop flights from O’Hare and Midway. Even short visits to metropolitan Phoenix or the Flagstaff and Grand Canyon areas can produce additions to your life list without much effort. Margaret Dyekman will share beautiful photos and interesting facts about 45 bird species in Arizona that are “visitor friendly.” Margaret has watched birds in Arizona from her backyard for 20 years and spent those years documenting her experiences and those of other backyard birders in entertaining and informative print articles and blogs. She is an accomplished writer and speaker, published in professional magazines, and a frequent conference presenter. She recently published Backyard Birding in Northern Arizona, a beautiful text and photo book, where she took real-life experiences and turned them into vignettes about bird identification, showing the reader how to make the most of backyard birding.

Margaret is a member of the Northern Arizona Audubon Society, White Mountain Audubon Society, Desert Rivers Audubon Society (board member), Arizona Field Ornithologists, and American Birding Association. Some of her most fun birding experiences have been on golf courses, where it was easier to find a rare bird than get a birdie on the course she was playing.