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	<title>Birding - Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival &#187; Marci Madsen Fuller, Chair RGVBF</title>
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	<description>The Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival Will Put the Life in Your Life List!</description>
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		<title>The RGVBF has Taken Flight</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
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Like this Valley specialty &#8211; Hook-billed Kite (thanks for the pic, Mary Gustafson!).
Online registrations opened this week, and there was a great rush to register!  We even had a sold out trip (The Sunday Chase Van) and had to add in additional space pronto.
A good problem to have.  The trade show, Birder&#8217;s Bazaar, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gates Will Be Open</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
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And the waiting flocks can fly on in!
RGVBF ONLINE REGISTRATION will be opening WEDNESDAY 21 JULY at 12 NOON!
So -  pick out your trips and talks now, and get ready. It&#8217;s all happening at rgvbirdfest.com.
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		<title>Tooting the RGVBF&#8217;s Vuvuzela</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
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We just have to do it. Three big long toots:
Toot #1: Birdzilla.com lists the RGVBF as Numero Uno among Festivals.
Toot #2: 1000 Facebook Fan-Friends (okay, as I write this we&#8217;re at 998).
Toot #3: Birds Australia (that country&#8217;s magazine counterpart to our ABA&#8217;s Birding) in the June issue featured an article on global festivals.  Borneo, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 RGVBF Brochure at Printers!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
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Finally!

The brochure is at the printers!  Due to various snags, snafus, storms, and the proverbial Mr. Murphy getting in there mucking things up, we are delayed in our 2010 Festival mailing.  Wanted to let you know that SOON it will go out, SOON we will have online registrations open.  Some of you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Get It Started</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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Yay!  We&#8217;re nearly there!
Brochure is in the final stages of layout/printing/mailing. Online registration is in the final stages of upload/activation.

But the fun stuff is here now!  2010 trips and talks are on the website, and ready for your browsing enjoyment.  There&#8217;s some great new stuff this year &#8211; the RGVBF continues to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Festin&#8217; Year-Round</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
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The 2009 event was stellar, and we’re busy working on making 2010 even more so.  Me/Marci/Chair of the RGVBF has been traveling to other Festivals to talk to folks about joining us here in November.  Last week of January found me at the Space Coast Birding Festival in Titusville Florida.  First week [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009: A Good Year for the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
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The RGVBF, in its 16th year, has aged beautifully.   Thanks to all—leaders, speakers, sponsors, vendors, volunteers, and especially, attendees.  You are the ingredients that made this Festival rich, robust, and replete with the heady undernotes of success.  (Hey, Burning Hawk – like our wine metaphor here?). 
Here’s Danny the Prez and Marci the Chair thanking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival Goes Beyond</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
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The Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival Goes Beyond
Beyond what?  Beyond looking at birds.  Beyond listing.  Beyond the hobby.
Don’t get me wrong—all that is great fun, and fun is what we’re about.
But we want to morph that fun into worthy things that make a difference as well.  And one of the main ways we do that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Art of the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
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For sixteen years, the RGVBF has generated amazing and lovely bird art from some of our foremost artists—Kenn Kaufman, David Sibley, John O’Neill, Tony Bennett, to name just a few—always featuring a special Valley bird.  I thought it’d be fun to see them all together, so here is a line-up of the entire collection of [...]]]></description>
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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>
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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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