Event: Rio
Grande Delta Audubon Chapter meeting.
Date: Monday, July 10th, 2006
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Place: Rio RV Park, 8801 Boca Chica, Brownsville, Texas - One mile east
of FM511 Map on web.
Admission: Free
The Rio Grande Delta Audubon Chapter meets at 6:30 p.m.
Chapter Business Meeting at the same location
7:30PM after our Speaker.
Dr. Alfred Richardson of UTB will talk about the fabulous plants
we have here in the Rio Grande Delta. He has authored books
like "Wild Flowers of Texas Beaches and Islands" and "Plants
of the
Rio Grande Delta". |
Tamaulipas Crow Sanctuary Proposal will
be discussed at the business meeting. A good discussion at the
feasibility committee
meeting plus other comments have made progress on sanctuary feasible.
More land adjacent to the existing property can be part of
the sanctuary at no cost. Sources of money have developed. A list
of
committees
are: Letter writing for support and pledges, Non-profit charity
donation committee, Property Improvements with Cost, and Operation
Cost.
Come help us make a conservation impact on Brownsville to remember.
Your comments and support are a necessary part of this project.
Watch our web site www.riograndedeltaaudubon.org for updates on this
project.
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"WOW,I Didn't Know
That!!"
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| In the 1800's there was interest in an
idea to train and harness 10 eagles to take a man into the sky, the
way people of that era used horses to pull a carriage. The idea never
got off the ground. |
| One prehistoric bird, Dinornis maximus,
was 13 feet tall, more than twice as tall as a man. |
| There is a bird, called
a "dipper," that
flies under water. Using its wings as fins, It can go down to 20
feet and stay there up to 30 seconds. |
| Geese have been known to fly higher than
5 miles up in the air. |
| Some Vultures have learned that for dinner
they can crack other bird's eggs by throwing stones at them. |
| A human heart beats at about 50 to 100
beats per minute. A hummingbird's heart beats between 36 and 1200
beats per minute. When at rest, the bird's heart beats at 480. Our
body temperature is always close to 98.6. Their body temperature
ranges from 55 to 110 degrees. |
| There is a species of bird, the cowbird,
which is too lazy to make nests. They put their eggs in nests belonging
to other birds. |
If
you give an oystercatcher a choice between one of her own
eggs, or a fake egg made of wood, she will sit on the wooden
one.
|
There
is a bird that uses the same handkerchief ploy that women in
a previous era used to engage men in conversation. When this
bird, the heron, sees a fish under water, she drops a feather.
When the fish goes after the feather, the bird acquires lunch.
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http://members.aol.com/oddwonder/birds.htm Birds-Oddities & Wonders
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| Thanks to Dr. Chris Butler we had a sucessful
net and tag event for RGDA Saturday June 10 at National Audubon Sabal
Palm Sanctuary. An 8 X 10 photo of the Yellow-green Vireo will be
a door prize. |
| The Ridley Turtle photo above gives you
an idea of the size of this beast when released. If you would like
to see a release of the young Ridleys I can try and get the message
to you. The notice is late the night before the release and if something
happens they could be released early and the trip can end up seeing
a sunrise. I have been lucky. |
