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		<title>New Galapagos Regulations: 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 04:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New rules will go into effect January 1, 2012, governing inter-island travel in the Galápagos. Starting in January 2012, no vessel will be permitted to visit the same site more than once every 14 days. The brilliant week-long itineraries now in effect will no longer be possible; by visiting the best sites, those itineraries make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Final Western Pacific Odyssey: 2011 with Steve Howell</title>
		<link>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2009/10/the-final-western-pacific-odyssey-2011-with-steve-howell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve learned that our friends at Heritage Expeditions will be conducting their final Western Pacific Odyssey in spring 2011, and so that will be your last chance for the pelagic trip of a lifetime on that incredible route with Steve Howell. After our 2007 cruise, Steve wrote: &#8220;Starts in New Zealand and ending in Japan, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andean Condors Making More Andean Condors</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t already seen Rich Hoyer&#8216;s video on our Facebook page, you&#8217;ve got to watch this recording of a chance encounter last week on the Villamontes-Tarija road in Tarija Department, Bolivia. Scouting for his 2010 Peak of Diversity tour, Rich took the video of mating condors by holding his Sony Cybershot point-and-shoot up to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Mini-Tour: Bird Fair and England&#8217;s East Coast</title>
		<link>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2009/09/new-mini-tour-bird-fair-and-englands-east-coast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bryan Bland is planning a new mini-tour to England, combining a day at the amazing British Bird Fair with a short week on the bird-rich coast of Norfolk. Plans are still being firmed up, but right now we anticipate starting at one of the large British airports August 21, then visiting the Bird Fair August [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birding With Bryan Bland</title>
		<link>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2009/06/birding-with-bryan-bland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bryan Bland has long been a favorite among WINGS birders, and with good reason. Now This Birding Life, a series of interviews, readings, and musings on this our shared hobby-sport-passion, features Bryan in a new &#8220;podcast,&#8221; shot on a recent visit to Guatemala&#8211;where Bryan will be leading a new WINGS tour in February. If you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Tour: Birding the Civil War</title>
		<link>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2009/05/new-tour-birding-the-civil-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 12:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I admire my colleagues for many things, chief among them their imagination&#8211;the ability to see connections where many people would not. A great example: Jon Dunn&#8217;s new tour combining birding with an exploration of Civil War history in Georgia and South Carolina. As we approach the 150th anniversary of that traumatic period in US history, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010: Back to Sichuan!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Holt has completely revised our 2010 Sichuan itinerary, and the revamped tour promises to be an exciting return to the heart of the Middle Kingdom. The Chinese government has spent some $150 billion dollars in the time since the Wenchuan earthquake of 2008, and the tourism infrastructure is well developed and travel through this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New Georgia Review</title>
		<link>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2009/04/the-new-georgia-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Birders read more, and more widely, than just about anybody I know. I&#8217;m grateful to Doug Carlson, author of the definitive biography of Roger Tory Peterson and Assistant Editor at The Georgia Review, for word of the new spring issue of that estimable publication, entitled &#8220;Culture and the Environment.&#8221; The keynote essay by Scott Russell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haydn in May</title>
		<link>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2008/10/haydn-in-may/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our annual autumn visits to the wonderful Haydn festival in Eisenstadt always offer an exciting range of birds to complement the magnificent music. In 2009, though, in addition to our regular September extravaganza, we’re offering a springtime week in this exciting venue. To commemorate the bicentenary of Haydn’s death, a magnificent musical feast has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Tour: Colombian Endemics</title>
		<link>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2008/09/new-tour-colombian-endemics/</link>
		<comments>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2008/09/new-tour-colombian-endemics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With something close to 75 endemics and a bird list longer than that of any other country on earth, Colombia has long been every birder&#8217;s dream destination. For years, though, it was essentially off limits to most foreign travelers; that&#8217;s changed, and now, with careful planning and good local contacts, Colombia is once again &#8220;open&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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