19th Annual Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival

Hello! Thanks for visiting us here at Harlingen’s RGV Birding Festival website! Hope that means you’re thinking about joining us for our 19th annual (making us one of the granddaddies of nature fests). Below, you’ll find all the reasons you need for saying Yes I’m Going and marking it in ink on your calendar!

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  • 19th Annual Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival

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  • Testimonials

     

    • Kenn Kaufman

      Kenn KaufmanKaufman Field Guides

      Heading home from Rio Grande Valley Birding Fest: organizers did a superb job once again! #RGVBF #birding #TheValleyRocks ~ (@KennKaufman)

    • Ashli Gorbet

      Ashli GorbetNew Mexico Ornithological Society

      I sometimes feel like the one week I spend at the RGVBF is my real life and the stuff I do for the other 51 weeks out of the year is the alternate universe. Hmmm...

    • Jeffrey Gordon

      Jeffrey A. GordonABA President

      Real life is great, but it just doesn't stack up next to the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival. If you've been there, you know what I mean. If you haven't been there yet, mark your calendar for 2012!

    • Bill Thompson_mini

      Bill Thompson IIIEditor, Bird Watcher's Digest

      The Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival has a well-deserved reputation as one of North America's premier birdwatching events. Great birds, great people, great hospitality—the RGVBF has it all.

    • Jon Dunn

      Jon Dunnauthor National Geographic Field Guide / Leader Wings Birding Tours

      The Rio Grande Birding Festival, one of the longest standing birding festivals in North America, offers field trips to spot many species of birds that can be found nowhere else. Every year, I look forward to being a part of it all.

    • Sharon Stiteler

      Sharon StitelerBirdchick.com

      My number one festival is the Rio Grande Valley Bird Fest in South Texas--great species and wonderful people who run the festival. Green jays, kiskadees, three species of kingfishers! And it's also a fairly cheap area to stay in. The food is amazing…

    • Debby Kaspari

      Debby KaspariArtist

      I had the best time ever at the RGVBF. Fantastic birds, fantastic field trips, fantastic festival. Thanks for everything and more!

    • Linda Rockwell

      Linda RockwellAttorney/Photographer

      Last day at the #RGVBF. I've had a fabulous time. Best birding festival EVER! ~@LRockwellatty

    • C.Ciccone

      Christopher CicconeFanatical birder and avid photographer

      RGVBF was an absolute blast. Great seeing old friends and meeting new. Also great birding and photography.

    • Michael Retter2

      Michael RetterEditor, Winging It / Tour Leader Tropical Birding

      There's no single birding event I look forward to more each year than the RGVBF. It always seems like November can never come soon enough!

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