2015 BIRDING CLASSIC: The Great Texas Birding Classic 
offers many ways to "watch the birdie" and win money 
for habitat preservation ... details on Passport to Texas

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The Great Texas Birding Classic - the world's biggest, 
longest and wildest bird watching tournament - 
welcomes birders of all ages and abilities to form teams.

07 -- We've added some really good entry level tournaments, so 
beginning birders can take part; it's not just the hard core 
listers anymore. Anyone can do this.

Shelly Plante is nature tourism manager for TPW.

20 -- I loved seeing more families involved last year; a family of 
four could go out and do a sunrise to noon tournament because 
it's an all ages tournament. A group of co-workers and their 
kids might go out and do a Big Sit, because there's an unlimited 
number of people that can be on that team - it's not a three to 
five person team like some of the others. So, there really is 
enough variety that you can find something that fits your needs.

The deadline to register a team is April 1. And your team 
can compete any day from April 15 to May 15. 

23 -- And you don't pick that ahead of time. Some people have 
really flexible schedules, and so they don't tell me until 24 
hours out from their tournament day that they're going to go 
birding. They wait, look at weather patterns, see when birding is 
going to be really good. If it's a really good birding day, and 
there's a cold front, and birds are everywhere - they can just 
pick on the fly: "We're going to go tomorrow; that's our day." 
And they just shoot me an email. So, it's really flexible.

Check out all the Great Texas Birding Classic tournaments 
and register your team by April 1 at birdingclassic.org.

For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti






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