image013Dena Greenwood began her birding adventures 23 years ago as an Arizona State Park’s ranger leading bird walks at the 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. She conducted bird research for Colorado Plateau Research Station, National Park Service, and the U.S. Forest Service on the Verde and Colorado, and San Juan River corridors. She is a Northern Arizona Audubon Board member and a founding committee member of the Verde Valley Bird and Nature Festival. She teaches Birds of the Region courses through Yavapai College and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and currently manages Jay’s Bird Barn in Sedona.  

 

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