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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>Silent Auction Sizzles</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norma Friedrich, Secretary/Silent Auction</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2011 RGVBF is not only BIG it’s HOT.  Starting with the HOT SAUCE at the souvenir booth and continuing with the HOT items in the Silent Auction. Quality scopes, binoculars and optic accessories donated by top optics vendors Eagle Optics, Swarovski, Zeiss, Leica, Kowa and Opticron are always popular.  When and where to use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The RGVBF and The Big Picture</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marci Madsen Fuller, Chair RGVBF</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’re one month away! RGVBF Volunteers are scurrying like ants (but ones that don’t bite!). The President Danny Hoehne is toting boxes of t-shirts, meeting with city officials, lining up the morning bus loading volunteers.  The Chair Marci Fuller is producing nametags, tweaking the poster, scheduling authors signings.  The Secretary Norma Friedrich is calling uncommitted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BEING GREEN at the RGVBF</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marci Madsen Fuller, Chair RGVBF</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’re not familiar with it already, The Birding Community E-Bulletin, written by Paul Baicich and Wayne Peterson and sponsored by National Geographic, is a gem of a newsletter that drops into your email box monthly.  A digest full of the latest birding world news, always interesting and informative.  (To subscribe, drop Paul an e:  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Right-brained at the RGVBF</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marci Madsen Fuller, Chair RGVBF</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since man first picked up a burnt stick and scratched an image on the nearest rock, art depicting the natural world has been an extension of our existence. In the depictions of animals and birds and flowers, Science and Art have merged through the ages in a wonderful way.  Some of today’s finest bird and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Those Wonderful Whoopers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 02:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marci Madsen Fuller, Chair RGVBF</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been thinking about Whoopers lately. It’s the Operation Migration cam that’s got me going. If you haven’t seen it yet, check in out around 7a Central time, when the training flights are being conducted.  There’s something thrilling and lofty about it, something that makes your insides lift up and fly right along with those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BIRDING with BINnS TIPS</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MAKING the RIO GRANDE VALLEY BIRDING FESTIVAL YOUR BEST EXPERIENCE by Adrian Binns, Birding festivals offer wonderful, unexpected opportunities to be engaged, inspired and enlightened.  The Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival (RGVBF) is among the best—combining specialty birds, excellent leaders and superior organizers all in one location.  This year&#8217;s RGVBF guarantees an incredible experience at every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Valley That Isn’t</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marci Madsen Fuller, Chair RGVBF</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ There’s the state of Texas, and then there’s the Valley.  Say ‘The Valley’ and most birders will know just what you’re talking about:  The Rio Grande Valley of deep South Texas. The Valley conjures up blood-pumping, soul-stirring, feet-itchin’ images of Zone-tailed Hawks and winter rarities and sabal palms and South Padre Island and Tex-Mex plates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>8 Reasons to Sign Up for Ruth Hoyt’s Photo Ops Trip:</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 22:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are a birder who believes a camera is as vital to carry as binoculars, Photo Ops Ranch Style with Ruth Hoyt is designed for you. Led by esteemed professional photographer Ruth Hoyt, a select group will enjoy the privilege of not only benefiting from her experience and knowledge, but also doing so at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As Smooth as RBPI Feathers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marci Madsen Fuller, Chair RGVBF</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[registration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8211;that’s how our first days of Registration are going.  Record early numbers are filling up the special trips. Which trips are special?  All of them!  Hey, it’s THE Valley!  It’s the place where Green Jays gangs shout from mesquites, where Caracaras mix with the TV’s, where Buffies (Buff-bellied Hummingbirds) lord over the yard feeders and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE GREAT PALM-RAISING SAGA</title>
		<link>http://www.rgvbf.org/2011/04/the-great-palm-raising-saga/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 03:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marci Madsen Fuller, Chair RGVBF</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Parakeet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Red-crowned Parrot]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cast:  RGV Birding Festival, Arroyo Colorado Audubon Society, Red-crowned Parrots, Green Parakeets. Supporting cast: Golden-fronted Woodpeckers. The RGVBF has a long history of Giving Back.  It was instrumental in the preservation and acquisition of forty acres of native thornscrub within the Harlingen city limits, called The Thicket, which is now in the parks system with [...]]]></description>
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