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		<title>The Birdathon Season: Soon Upon Us</title>
		<link>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/03/the-birdathon-season-soon-upon-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So how do WINGS leaders spend their time when they&#8217;re not leading tours?
In the field, of course, birding and learning&#8211;and contributing to conservation by participating in such activities as &#8220;birdathons.&#8221;
Rich Hoyer&#8217;s Voyeurs will be going head to head with Gavin Bieber&#8217;s High Rollers in Tucson Audubon&#8217;s annual event.
Where will you be birdathoning it this spring?
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		<title>Young Birders&#8217; Event at the Cornell Lab</title>
		<link>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/02/young-birders-event-at-the-cornell-lab/</link>
		<comments>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/02/young-birders-event-at-the-cornell-lab/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chris Wood and Jessie Barry are the primary leaders for the 2010 Young Birders&#8217; Event August 12-15 in Ithaca, NY.
Applications are due April 15. You can read more about last year&#8217;s exceedingly successful meeting on line at the Cornell Lab&#8217;s website.
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		<title>In Search of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper</title>
		<link>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/02/in-search-of-the-spoon-billed-sandpiper/</link>
		<comments>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/02/in-search-of-the-spoon-billed-sandpiper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recent Sightings and Highlights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Will Russell and David Sibley have returned from Thailand, where they were studying Spoon-billed Sandpipers at the traditional site at Pak Thale in the northern Gulf of Thailand.  They saw multiple birds every day, with a maximum of six.
Will writes: &#8220;From the point where six Spoon-bills were visible at once, by spinning slowly around one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Answer to Trivia Question</title>
		<link>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/02/answer-to-trivia-question/</link>
		<comments>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/02/answer-to-trivia-question/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trivia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What is the commonest sandpiper in North America?
Not all scolopacids are called &#8220;sandpiper,&#8221; and some of them don&#8217;t pipe sand at all. The commonest sandpiper in North America, for example, spends most of its time lurking in dark forests, where it is rarely seen except when it emerges for a twilight twirl around its aerial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>COAX: Military Macaws in Oaxaca</title>
		<link>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/02/coax-military-macaws-in-oaxaca/</link>
		<comments>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/02/coax-military-macaws-in-oaxaca/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our friend Robert Straub writes from Xalapa, Veracruz:
On behalf of the members and officers of the Club de Observadores de Aves de Xalapa,  thanks very much to you and to WINGS for the generous donation made in October 2009 after the ABA Conference in Xalapa.
We&#8217;ll be using the largest part of the funds to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oriental Turtle-Dove Photos</title>
		<link>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/01/oriental-turtle-dove-photos/</link>
		<comments>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/01/oriental-turtle-dove-photos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recent Sightings and Highlights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many thanks to Pete Davidson for allowing us to post his photos of the British Columbia Oriental Turtle-Dove.

The bird was discovered Monday at Alaksen NWA, next door to the Reifel Bird Sanctuary.
The past couple of days have produced no further sightings, but as Vancouver birders have noted, there are lots of dove flocks to look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MEGA: Oriental Turtle-Dove in British Columbia</title>
		<link>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/01/mega-oriental-turtle-dove-in-british-columbia/</link>
		<comments>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/01/mega-oriental-turtle-dove-in-british-columbia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Oriental Turtle-Dove was photographed ninety minutes ago at Alaksen  NWA, British Columbia.
If the usual questions of provenance can be settled, this will be a third record for Canada and one of less than a dozen accepted reports for all of North America.
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		<title>Redwing in Newfoundland</title>
		<link>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/01/redwing-in-newfoundland/</link>
		<comments>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/01/redwing-in-newfoundland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bruce Mactavish reports a Redwing in Newfoundland, first found Tuesday and still present through at least Wednesday.
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		<title>January Trivia Question</title>
		<link>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/01/january-trivia-question-3/</link>
		<comments>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/01/january-trivia-question-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trivia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A factual question this time:
What is the most abundant sandpiper in North America?
Leave your answer as a comment below. The first correct answer will win a new WINGS cap.
]]></description>
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		<title>December Trivia Quiz: Answer(s)</title>
		<link>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/01/december-trivia-quiz-answers/</link>
		<comments>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/01/december-trivia-quiz-answers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trivia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As Michael Bowen was the first to point out, increasing size is the key to this riddle about hawk names. His suggestion&#8211;Crane&#8211;is a good one, giving us Sparrow (Hawk), Pigeon (Hawk), Duck (Hawk), Crane (Hawk).
Andy Jones kept it neatly within the family Falconidae with his proposal, Partridge (Hawk), an obsolete name for (among other species) [...]]]></description>
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