Programs

For details on the programs at each of the nine World Birding Center sites, please click on the site name below.

• Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Mission (Headquarters)
• Edinburg Scenic Wetlands
• Estero Llano Grande State Park, Weslaco
• Harlingen Arroyo Colorado
• Old Hidalgo Pumphouse, Hidalgo
• Quinta Mazatlan, McAllen
• Resaca de la Palma State Park, Brownsville
• Roma Bluffs
• South Padre Island Birding and Nature Center

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2008-2009 Events

• NABA 2008 Lower Rio Grande Valley Butterfly Counts
  July 12, 2008 - Bentsen-RGV State Park and NABA International Butterfly Park
  July 13, 2008 - Santa Ana NWR and vicinity
  October 25, 2008 - First NABA Butterfly Park - Bentsen State Park Seasonal Count
  www.naba.org/chapters/nabast/events.html
  www.naba.org/counts/tx_g.html
• McAllen International Birding Tours
  October 3-14, 2008
  www.mcallencvb.com
• The Big Sit!
  October 12, 2008 (Sunday) - Nation/Worldwide
  www.birdwatchersdigest.com/site/funbirds/bigsit/bigsit.aspx
• Texas Butterfly Festival
  October 16-19, 2008 - Mission, TX
  www.texasbutterfly.com
• El Cielo Butterfly Festival (Ciudad Mante, Tamaulipas, Mexico)
  October 19-23, 2008
  www.mexbirds.net/id10.html
• Wild in Willacy
  October 23-25, 2008
  www.wildinwillacy.com
• Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival
  November 5-9, 2008
  www.rgvbirdfest.com
• South Texas Wildlife and Birding Festival (Kingsville)
  November 20-23, 2008
  www.kingsvilletexas.com
• Resaca de la Palma State Park
  December 6, 2008 - Grand Opening
  www.worldbirdingcenter.org/sites/brownsville/
• Christmas Bird Count
  December 14, 2008 through January 5, 2009 - Nationwide
  www.audubon.org/bird/cbc/getinvolved.html
  Valley sites participating include Bentsen-RGV State Park, Estero Llano Grande SP, Santa Ana NWR, Laguna Atascosa NWR, and count circles for Brownsville, Harlingen, Falcon, Laredo, the salt lakes, and the coastal tip, plus at least four count circles in neighboring Tamaulipas, Mexico
• Laredo Birding and Butterfly Festival
  February 5-8, 2009
  www.visitlaredo.com
  www.montemuchoaudubon.org/LaredoFestival.html
• Brownsville International Birding and Nature Festival
  February 12-14, 2009
  www.brownsville.org
• Great Backyard Bird Count
  February 13-16, 2009 - Nationwide
  www.birdsource.org/gbbc/
• El Cielo Nature Festival (Ciudad Mante, Tamaulipas, Mexico)
  Spring 2009
  www.mexbirds.net/id10.html
• McAllen International Birding Tours
  April 19-30, 2009
  www.mcallencvb.com
• Thirteenth Annual Great Texas Birding Classic
  April 26 - May 3, 2009
  www.tpwd.state.tx.us/gtbc/
• 10th Annual Dragonfly Days
  May 21-24, 2009
  Estero Llano Grande State Park

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