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		<title>A Flock of Vendors: The Birder’s Bazaar at the RGVBF</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marci Madsen Fuller, Chair RGVBF</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who’s happy about the RGV Birding Festival?  Our excited registrants, our energetic staff, our enthusiastic leaders, our enlightening speakers, and Santa.
Wait…what…Santa?
Yup.  He’s happy because if you shop for Christmas at the Birder’s Bazaar Trade Show, his job is a little easier.  And it’s a great place to do so, with some special vendors this year.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday 11.04.09</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenny Salazar</dc:creator>
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		<title>Valley Specialty Highlight</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marci Madsen Fuller, Chair RGVBF</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rio Grande Valley Birds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kingbird sp.
Or so it says on the CBC form.  Because if the Couch’s and Tropicals aren’t singing (the former’s voice being stronger and shrill, the latter more tremulous and twittery), it’s a toughie.  Always an animated topic of conversation among birders is just how much one can tell them apart without voice—by clues like bill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday 10.28.09</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenny Salazar</dc:creator>
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		<title>BIRDS…BUTTERFLIES…and YES! ODONATES—RULE the RGV</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marci Madsen Fuller, Chair RGVBF</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rio Grande Valley Wildlife]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The butterflies are busting out down here in The Valley, and the Mission Butterfly Festival is going on.  It’s hard to turn attention from those lovely flutterbies, but I promised an ode post.
Odes…odonates…dragonflies and damselflies.  They’re sort of the frontier among nature IDers – whether hobbyist or scientist.  And like our birds and butterflies, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A SWAP: Sabal Palm Sanctuary for a Secret Jewel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marci Madsen Fuller, Chair RGVBF</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival &#8216;09 Trip Announcement
Texas Audubon had to close its Sabal Palm Sanctuary temporarily in May.  They had hoped to reopen it by mid-October, but unfortunately that cannot be so.
The Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival trips scheduled to visit Sabal Palm will instead visit The Nature Conservancy&#8217;s Lennox Foundation Southmost Preserve [Southmost].  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday 10.21.09</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenny Salazar</dc:creator>
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		<title>Bird Banding in the Rio Grande Valley</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenny Salazar</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bird Banding]]></category>
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Did you know that the first record of a metal band attached to a bird’s leg was about 1595? I didn’t either. One of Henry the IV’s banded Peregrine Falcon’s was lost chasing a bustard and showed up 24 hours later in Malta, about 1350 miles away, averaging 56 miles per hour.
Here’s another. Duke Ferdinand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday 10.14.09</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenny Salazar</dc:creator>
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		<title>Let’s Meet!</title>
		<link>http://www.rgvbirdfestival.com/2009/10/lets-meet-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marci Madsen Fuller, Chair RGVBF</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RGVBF Volunteer: Lupita Lucio
 Lupita Lucio wears many hats for the Festival – literally!  She’s our cap/t-shirt/patch person.  But she also spearheads the fun Kiskadee Kordial social, provides coffee and goodies for our vendors, and she and her husband are long-time supporters of the Festival.
A retired R.N., she was born and raised right here in [...]]]></description>
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