A Warm Festival Welcome!
2012 Dates: 7-11 November
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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Reason #1: BIRDS BIRD BIRDS
The Rio Grande Valley (actually a delta, where the Rio Grande meets the sea) is the place for the single greatest concentration of unique, endemic avian species in the continental U.S. And they’re eye-popping sub-tropical species.
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Reason #2: BEST LEADERS EVER
The RGVBF is long-famed for the quality of its leaders. Bird with the big names—the authors and editors of your favorite books and publications, the movers and shakers in science and conservation and education.
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Reason #3: A GETAWAY OF PALMS AND SUN
Harlingen and the Valley offer a warm, affordable vacation as winter is commencing in more northerly climes. Look at a map—latitude puts the Valley level with Miami. And note how much of Mexico is north of us—hence our sub-tropical status. Plus, you can fly right into Harlingen’s Valley International Airport on Southwest or Continental, and be 15 minutes from the Festival site. Convenient!
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Reason #4: AN EVENT UNPARALLELED
Seminars, workshops, trade show, socials, authors signings, family programs, souvenir sales, and field trips. Trips for beginner to advanced. All day and ½ day trips. Trips on boats, trips designed with minimal walking, trips with birding world celebrities…it’s all here.
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Reason #5: THE RIPPLE EFFECT
The RGVBF is a catalyst for action in conservation, education, and awareness. We are a caring non-profit, working toward higher goals. Our current Giving Back project involves erecting habitat structures for Harlingen’s wild populations of Red-Crowned Parrots and Green Parakeets, and instigating protective legislation.
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Of course, there’s LOTS more reasons—group discounts, target species workshops, camaraderie, even unique Christmas shopping! So you see, there are NO reasons NOT to join us!
