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            <title><![CDATA[Nature Report: Altamira Orioles]]></title>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 15 May 2013 08:06:47 CDT]]></pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It all starts with a few strands of plant fiber and some string attached to the uppermost branches of a chaparro prieto, but in three weeks of steady work this Altamira oriole will create an intricately woven nest some two feet in length that is constructed securely enough to withstand the gusty winds of Deep South Texas.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[NATURE REPORT : Red Crown Parrots]]></title>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 13 May 2013 08:41:54 CDT]]></pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Perched on a weathered cottonwood snag, a pair of red-crowned parrots affectionately grooms one another in the early morning.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nature Report: Hooded Oriole]]></title>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 08 May 2013 09:41:57 CDT]]></pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Tucked into their tiny cup of a nest four little hooded orioles pop up expectantly with the imminent arrival of a meal delivered by their mother.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nature Report: Migratory Miracle]]></title>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 06 May 2013 08:11:55 CDT]]></pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Imagine for a moment, the remarkable odyssey of the ruby-throated hummingbird.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nature Report: Bird Banding]]></title>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 01 May 2013 08:03:54 CDT]]></pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Carefully removing a Lincoln sparrow that has just flown into his mist net, Mark Conway of Harlingen will next band the bird and record a series of measurements before releasing it.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nature Report: Fabulous Fallout]]></title>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:26:41 CDT]]></pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Colorful birds are everywhere as the spring migration thru South Padre Island hosts thousands of exhausted songbirds stopping over to rest and feed after winging it some 500 miles across the Gulf of Mexico.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nature Report: Migratory Corridor Part II]]></title>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:28:02 CDT]]></pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Dr. Bart Ballard, research scientist with Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute at Texas A&amp;M Kingsville, enters the University's state of the art avian radar detection system.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nature Report: America's Most Critical Migratory Corridor]]></title>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:00:52 CDT]]></pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It's the peak of spring migration thru America's most critical migratory corridor here in Deep South Texas, and colorful songbirds such as painted buntings and rose-breasted grosbeaks' are briefly stopping over to rest and refuel on their flight to breeding grounds throughout North America.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nature Report: 33rd Annual CCA Banquet]]></title>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:19:24 CDT]]></pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, not so very long ago, trout and redfish were not protected game fish with limits and gill nets covered the Lower Laguna Madre.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nature Report: The Eyes Have It]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.valleycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=885142]]></link>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 15 Apr 2013 07:49:27 CDT]]></pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The yellow gold eyes of a bobcat reflect the late afternoon light as the thirsty cat laps up the tepid water.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nature Report: Ocelot Documentary]]></title>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 10 Apr 2013 08:04:03 CDT]]></pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A phantom cat secretively stalks the remnants of thick thorny brush in southernmost Texas.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nature Report: South Texas Blob]]></title>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 08 Apr 2013 08:12:08 CDT]]></pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In western Starr County there are two species of quail and their territories overlap.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nature Report: Reddish Egrets]]></title>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 01 Apr 2013 08:08:48 CDT]]></pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The reddish egrets have arrived, swooping in by the hundreds on Green Island.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nature Report: Easter Eggs]]></title>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:38:39 CDT]]></pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Easter sunrise is fast approaching, and while it is early in the South Texas outdoors for most birds to be laying eggs some like the great blue heron are already incubating.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nature Report: Alligators Survive Drought]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.valleycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=876202]]></link>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 25 Mar 2013 07:49:45 CDT]]></pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[If you want to see an alligator at Alligator Pond on Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge east of Rio Hondo, then you are out of luck.]]></description>
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