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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>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>
		<dc:creator>Marci Madsen Fuller, Chair RGVBF</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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>
		<dc:creator>Marci Madsen Fuller, Chair RGVBF</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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>
		<dc:creator>Marci Madsen Fuller, Chair RGVBF</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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>Wordless Wednesday 11.11.09</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenny Salazar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photos are posted &#8220;with permission&#8221;. Photos may not be copied and used elsewhere without the permission of the respective photographer.
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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>
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[Damselflies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dragonflies]]></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>
		<link>http://www.rgvbirdfestival.com/2009/10/a-swap-sabal-palm-sanctuary-for-a-secret-jewel/</link>
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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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