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		<title>The New WINGS Website</title>
		<link>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/12/the-new-wings-website/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 21:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve always been proud of the clean look and easy &#8220;navigation&#8221; of the WINGS website, but over the past couple of weeks, a good thing has got even better. In addition to all the usual information about upcoming tours, the redesigned website now offers &#8220;real-time&#8221; reports from WINGS leaders in the field, alerts of new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>October Trivia Question: An Answer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 01:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We asked: You encounter a flock of exactly 100 small sandpipers; careful inspection proves that they are all of the same species. On a whim, you count the toes, coming up with an absolutely accurate total of 602. What is the species? Famously, the only small sandpiper lacking a hind toe is  Sanderling. Thus, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Ivory Gull</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 02:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[California&#8217;s second, believe it or not, Ivory Gull is an adult hanging out on Pismo Beach near San Luis Obispo. Gonna be a few birders there in the morning!]]></description>
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		<title>Gambell: Wow&#8211;As Always</title>
		<link>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/10/gambell-wow-as-always/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 07:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Lehman looks back on a spectacular fall at Gambell: I am now back home in San Diego, but Luke DeCicco et al. continue to soldier on at Gambell for another two weeks. After counting 4,375 Spectacled Eiders on 27 Sep, we added another 3,520 birds (again, almost all adult males) on 28 Sep, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>British Bird Fair 2010</title>
		<link>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/09/british-bird-fair-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many familiar WINGS faces can you find? Have a look especially at the roundup video from Day Two! http://www.birdfair.tv/]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday Night on Tucson&#8217;s East Side</title>
		<link>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/09/saturday-night-on-tucsons-east-side/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 07:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liz Payne writes from Tucson: Loving the cooler weather, and the snakes are loving warm concrete. Last night on our evening constitutional, touring the streets around our pristine, grass-filled-Palm-Springs-esque (not a native plant in sight) townhouse, we enjoyed our own bat night along the Tanque Verde wash, with another amazing sunset. Just as we arrived [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Taxonomic Changes</title>
		<link>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/07/some-taxonomic-changes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fifty-first Supplement to the AOU Check-list (still so quaintly spelled a century and a quarter after the first edition!) has been published. In the US and Canada, we now have two whip-poor-wills, Mexican Whip-poor-will and Eastern Whip-poor-will, and the old “winter” wren is now recognized as three species, two of which–Pacific Wren and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Passing It On</title>
		<link>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/07/passing-it-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jon Dunn finished a very successful Second Spring tour Friday night&#8211;then, rather than hop on the plane for some well-deserved rest, got up early Saturday to meet a group of young Arizona birders in upper Madera Canyon. Jon&#8217;s companions, boys, girls, and young adults, were all eager and enthusiastic birders, all of them poised to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Long-whiskered Owlet!</title>
		<link>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/07/long-whiskered-owlet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the most highly sought bird in all of Peru, the Long-whiskered Owlet is also among the most mysterious. Long known only from mist-netted specimens, it&#8217;s been seen a handful of times since 2007&#8211;most recently YESTERDAY by Rich Hoyer as he finished up scouting for this summer&#8217;s tour of Northern Peru. The images he sent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News from Africa</title>
		<link>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/06/news-from-africa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Africa has apparently tightened up on yellow fever certificates for the world cup, wanting to see them from anyone arriving from another African country. This has had a ripple effect throughout the continent, and apparently some countries are now insisting on seeing yellow fever certificates if you have arrived from another African country, even [...]]]></description>
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