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Springtime in the RGV

April 15, 2025 by Hannah 2 Comments
The Rio Grande Valley (RGV) is also called the “magic valley” – but not for the reason you might...
Birding

Flogging A New Patch

March 25, 2014 by Felonious Jive 2 Comments
The patch. All birders know what a patch is, and I’m going to do all of us a favor...
Birding

What Happens When A Code 5 Rarity Shows Up At A Bird Festival

November 13, 2013 by Birdchick 6 Comments
I love the Rio Grande Valley Bird Festival. I love birding the area and I love the people–it’s a...
Trips

Birding On The Cheap: Rio Grande Valley

January 25, 2012 by Birdchick 16 Comments
If I have learned anything from living in the northern half of the United States is that in order...
Birding

Southern Parula

December 13, 2011 by Nate 6 Comments
We birders birders on the eastern half of the continent are quite familiar with the ubiquitous Northern Parula, whose...
Birding

The parrots you have, not the parrots you wish you had

November 29, 2011 by Nate 10 Comments
We birders north of Mexico used to have a parrot to call our own, a sun-faced, spike tailed jewel...
Trips

Great Texas Birding Classic: Scenes from the Upper Rio Grande Valley

April 17, 2011 by Mike 5 Comments
On the first day of the Great Texas Birding Classic, the Swarovski Roadside Hawks racked up over 180 species on...
Bugs

Dung Beetles of the Rio Grande Valley

February 8, 2010 by Mike 8 Comments
I am so excited about the announcement of Ted C. MacRae‘s new beetle-based blog carnival,  An Inordinate Fondness that I delved...
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