Verdin - MARIAN HERZ

This presentation will focus on the birds found on a September 2020 road trip from Boise, through Nevada to the southeast corner of the state, northern Arizona and southwest Utah. In addition we’ll visit the Phoenix area in the summer of 2018 and Pinetop-Lakeside, AZ in April of 2022. Sites visited include national parks, national monuments, national wildlife refuges, state parks and a local riparian reserve. While looking at photographs of the birds found in these areas, we’ll discuss which areas are most promising for finding birds.

Marian Herz is a retired product development and management professional who now spends most of her time traveling the world taking photographs. She has won international photographic competitions, including 3 best-in-the-world nature print awards in the Kodak International Salon, an honorable mention in the Raptors at Risk contest and several ribbons at the Western Idaho Fair. One of her images will be in the 2020 World center for Birds of Prey calendar. Marian won an award in the Ocean Conservancy 2016 contest, and five of her images were included in the 2019 and 2018 Ocean Conservancy calendars. Her images have also been published in National Wildlife magazine, Nature Conservancy Magazine, National Wildlife 2020 Calendar, National Gardening magazine, Florida Wildlife magazine, Mensa magazine and on the World Wildlife Fund web site. She has exhibited in numerous juried art shows and galleries.