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Black Skimmer
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Harris Hawks flower |
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Roseate Spoonbill |
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Event:
The Rio
Grande Delta Audubon Chapter will hold their monthly meeting
on Monday, July 7, 6:30 p.m. at the Historic Brownsville Museum
at 7th and Madison Streets in Brownsville, Texas. A locator
map is on this web site. |
Rio Grande River Status
By Erasmo Yarrito, Jr. Team Leader Watermaster Program |
Rio Grande River and Reservoir System's condition and how the Watermaster is involved.
Erasmo Yarrito, Jr. Watermaster Team Leader will make the presentation. Water flow, plants blocking the river, water taken without allocation, and many other matters that include our neighbor, Mexico. What is the drought situation and how much of the water belongs to the USA and how much to Mexico? What controls are in place to control water distribution? |
SEA TURTLE NESTING NEWS |
| The 2008 season for the highly endangered Kemps' Ridley sea turtles, which
nest right here on our beaches, is one for the record books: 51 nests have
been found so far - 40 on S. Padre Island, and 11 on Boca Chica Beach. In
addition, one Atlantic Green nest was found, only the second one ever to be
documented on the South Texas coast! Hatchlings are being released at a
record pace, with close to 2,000 so far having made their way back into the
Gulf. Releases are open to the public and occur at 7am at County Beach
Access #4. Visit www.seaturtleinc.com for estimated hatch dates, and/or
call 761-4511 for more information if you'd like to be part of one of these
wondrous experiences. |
Cool
Cities |
Ann Drumm of the Sierra Club from Dallas lead twenty-three of us in building
teams and discussion on how to help cities and counties to be CoolCities and
save money at the same time. A tried, successful plan was studied to help
our public officials to develop ways to being GREEN and saving tax payers
money. Some cities are already doing some of the things that do just this.
A team was formed for Brownsville, and another for the Laguna Vista / Port
Isabel / SPI area. Free three-ring binders full of information for the
public officials were given to the teams. If you are interested in being
part of a team, please come to the SPI area organizational meeting Wednesday, July
9th, 6:30pm, at the South Padre Island Golf Course Clubhouse and/or get in touch with Lee Zieger for team information..
Reference Web Sites Cool
Cities for Sierra Club and Green
Program for Audubon with Toyota support. |
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Common Pauraque
Seen often on the twilight tour like this one June 24, 2008. |
History of Birding & Conservation in Brownsville |
| A deal is worked out for us to have two pages in a new book with 10,000 copies to include birding and conservation. My idea was to recant the events with historical pictures and text in arriving at today. Today would include the active participants of birding and conservation including Rio Grande Delta Audubon and the locations birders and conservationist seek in Brownsville. I need some help in doing some research and writing. We have about two months. |
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Websites -
Nature & Conservation
Gladys
Porter Zoo
Sabal
Palm Preserve
Frontera
Audubon
Valley
Nature Center
Los
Ebanos
Preserve
Laguna
Atascosa
NWR
Santa Ana NWR
SPI
Nature Center
RGV & NE
Mexico Butterfly Map
Birds
of RGV
Bird
Guiding - and linked trip
reports with species and photos
Landscape
Ordinance-Bro
Sea
Turtle,
Inc. |
About Us..
Rio
Grande Delta Audubon is dedicated to conservation of
our native habitat for the protection of birds, other
wildlife, and for the enhancement and appreciation of
our
environment.
Web Site:
RioGrandeDeltaAudubon.org |
Officers & Board
Lee Zieger, President
Greg Vail, Vice President
Mary Jean Garcia, Secretary
Laura Duval, Treasurer
Dorothy Greaney
George Garcia
Margaret Etchinson |
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Grande Delta Chapter, Brownsville Texas
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Newsletter
Editor &
Contact Info:
Lee Zieger:
8801 Boca Chica Brownsville,Texas 878521
Office:(956)831-4653 or 1-866-279-1775
Fax: (956) 831-0147
RGDAudubon@aol.com |
Please
forward this newsletter to others and ask them if we
can put them on our e-newsletter list.
My AOL Address List came back misteriously. I am having to review a manual list of new names to get on the AOL list. Let me know if someone tells you they missed the RGDA E-Newsletter. |
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