Category: The Chachalaca
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RGVC Leadership Team 2021
Officers President Roberto Gaitan 1st Vice President Tami Bulow 2nd Vice President Barbara Peet Secretary Carolyn Cardile Treasurer Maria Reyna-Gomez Directors Membership Joni Gillis New Class Barbara Peet Communications Diane Hall Advanced Training Teresa Du Bois Volunteer Services Alejandra Gomez New Class Rep. Susan Upton Winter Texans Rep. Carolyn Woughter Committees Membership Adrian Ramos, Norma Trevino,…
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A Surprise Plant after the Freeze
by Frank Wiseman Among the first plants we placed in TMN’s planting of the Runyon Garden in Harlingen’s Hugh Ramsey Park was a wild zinnia. At the time, I believe that is what we called it. In 2007, I joined a group of the Native Plant Society of Texas members on a special bus trip…
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The Chachalaca: March 2021
Read the articles below. Leave the author a comment. Or click here to download the pdf file: The Chachalaca March 2021. Vol. 18 No. 1. March 2021 – In this issue: A Look into the Harlingen CBC The Ubiquitous Great-Tailed Grackle Top Five Sea Beans Rio Grande Valley Night Skies City Nature Challenge Peculiarities Accepted…
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The Ubiquitous Great-tailed Grackle
There are reportedly 10 million Great-tailed Grackles, ranging from northwestern Venezuela and Colombia, through Mexico and the U.S. and into southern Canada. In winter, many of the northern ones come south, swelling the Valley’s flocks to gargantuan proportions to upwards of half a million birds. They frequent sugarcane and corn fields and land freshly plowed. A species…
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City Nature Challenge
We are busy preparing for the upcoming April 30 – May 3 City Nature Challenge (CNC). This is a volunteer opportunity open to all Texas Master Naturalists and anyone living in or visiting the Rio Grande Valley.