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	<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Ghana</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Senior Leader James Lidster writes from Ghana:
I&#8217;ve just found time to catch up on my e-mails after a hugely successful first  tour to Ghana&#8211;so successful that the second group is arriving this evening! Ghana is a  beautiful country, with good hotels, friendly people, and some terrific habitat  and birds.
The obvious highlight for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>November Trivia Question</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
		
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The scientific name of the Common Chaffinch is Fringilla coelebs. The species name&#8211;the source of the English word &#8220;celibate&#8221;&#8211;translates as &#8220;widower,&#8221; a whimsical Linnaean reference to the fact that Chaffinches form single-sex flocks in the winter.
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		<title>Palenque: &#8220;The Crazily Consistent Beauty of It All&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[And we&#8217;d thought we were going to have Palenque, among the loveliest and birdiest of all Mexican destinations, to ourselves this year! But a delightful article in the Times this morning seems to have let the gato out of the bolsa.
Never fear. Rich Hoyer&#8217;s late-January tour to the wonders cultural and natural of Palenque will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>See You in Corpus Christi&#8211;and Points South</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Texas Coast in April is one of the most reliably exciting destinations in all of North American birding, and the American Birding Association will be taking full advantage of the area&#8217;s wild diversity of breeders and migrants at its 2009 Convention. As always, WINGS will be represented by several leaders on the Convention field [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Owls on the Move</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
		
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The past ten days have brought the first signs of what may shape up to be a good winter for northern owls. Snowy Owls have been found in Massachusetts, Maine, and Minnesota, with Northern Hawk Owl reports coming from Minnesota as well. In the past, such early reports of these species have often presaged strong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Good Financial News&#8211;Believe It or Not!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our wide assortment of birding destinations world-wide means that WINGS deals with a large number of ground agents and local leaders&#8211;and an equally broad array of world currencies. As most of you know, the past months have seen significant fluctuations in international exchange rates; happily for WINGS clients, the trend at the moment is towards [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gambell: Prices Lowered</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the vigilance of Paul Lehman, WINGS has been able to secure a full complement of rooms for our Spring 2009 tour to Gambell, Alaska. As a result, we are able to take a group of the normal size, letting us reduce the price for that tour some ten percent, to about $4,980.
Join us!
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		<title>New WINGS Newsletter</title>
		<link>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2008/10/new-wings-newsletter-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Fall 2008 newsletter is now on line, with descriptions of new tours to China, Ukraine, Peru, and Colombia. There are also tempting trip reports from Costa Rica, Jamaica, and Sri Lanka, and some important Tour Updates including lower (yes, lower!) prices for Iceland and Alaska.
If you&#8217;re not already receiving paper copies of our print [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haydn in May</title>
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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 arranged, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iceland: Prices Fall</title>
		<link>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2008/10/iceland-prices-fall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Iceland, with its eerie landscapes, its ancient culture, and its dramatic birdlife, has long fired the imagination. This most captivating of birding destinations has also been among the most expensive&#8211;well worth it, of course, but still decidedly pricy.
Until now. Thanks to the efforts of our Icelandic friends and our hardworking colleagues at Sunbird, we&#8217;ve been [...]]]></description>
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