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	<title>Birding - Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival &#187; Rio Grande Valley Birds</title>
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:56:02 +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>
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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>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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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>Rarities and the Rio Grande Valley</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marci Madsen Fuller, Chair RGVBF</dc:creator>
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Here in the Rio Grande Valley, every few years, patternless in the way of vagrants, one of these is seen:


Also, one of these:

And maybe, one of these:
 
 
We are the sub-tropics here, a land of palms and bougainvillea and Gulf winds.  Because of that, we have our wonderful unique residents – the Great Kiskadee, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday 09.09.09</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenny Salazar</dc:creator>
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday 09.02.09</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenny Salazar</dc:creator>
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday 08.19.09</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenny Salazar</dc:creator>
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		<title>Watching Chachalacas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marci Madsen Fuller, Chair RGVBF</dc:creator>
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 When we moved to the Rio Grande Valley, our yard was an expanse of uninterrupted grass.  Now, 13 years later, it’s an acre+ of green thicket.  Our yard list soars – one of the largest in the nation – but it’s the residents that bring constant enjoyment.
Like this dude.
When the Chachalaca couple are nesting, [...]]]></description>
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