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Credit Pacific Service Union Raul Reyes would have been the first to laugh if someone had told him he would enjoy bird-watching. Birds did not move him. "I knew several birds, that was it," he said. Also, he is blind.

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Credit First Service Union But now Mr. Reyes, 58, a mechanic from Edinburg, Tex., who lost his sight to diabetes and botched laser surgery, spends delicious hours in mosquitoey subtropical thickets here in the birding mecca of the Rio Grande Valley, helping lead other blind and visually impaired men and women in bird-watching, or bird-listening.

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Card Credit Mobile Service They are the Blind Birders, as Gladie Cruz, 24, another leader of the group, boasted on her T-shirt, which also had a green parakeet logo and the slogan "We Can't See You But We Can Hear You."

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Card Credit Discover Service Studying CD's of bird songs the way sighted birders consult field manuals and carrying tape recorders instead of binoculars, they ooh and ahh over the extraordinary array of 500 identified species that make South Texas, with its migratory way stations, one of the world's birding capitals.

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Credit Public Service Union And for the first time, these birders will be included in one of the pastime's biggest events, the eighth annual Great Texas Birding Classic, which runs from April 17 to 25 along the coastline from Beaumont south to Brownsville. Participants who tally the most birds, using ears and eyes, in midnight-to-midnight segments get to allocate more than $50,000 in prize money to conservation causes of their choosing.

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Card Credit Processing Service The more limited blind birders' event, on April 18 in this area around the booming border city McAllen, has been officially designated, with cheerful good humor, the Outta-Sight Song Birder Tournament.

Center Credit Service Union "They thought it was a pretty cool play on words," said Roy J. Rodriguez, a leading bird-watcher here who has been working with the group as a project of the Rensselaerville Institute, a nonprofit organization seeking people with innovative approaches to community problems; in this case, how to better the lives of 12,000 blind people in a poor four-county region of the Rio Grande Valley. The area includes Starr County, by many indicators the poorest in the country.

Card Credit Service Wireless "Few people realize the number is so large because the blind rarely venture outside they live in self-imposed exile," said Eric Ellman, South Texas project director of the institute, based in Rensselaerville, N.Y. Its methodology is to seek out and sponsor community "spark plugs" like Ms. Cruz and Mr. Reyes to rally their peers to action.

Credit Security Service Union In their competition, three teams of three blind birders each, along with a sighted and more experienced fourth member wearing a blindfold, will be guided through thickets for eight hours, seeking to compile the longest list of birds identified. The teams, named for business sponsors, which put up $500 each, are the Wild Bird Center Inca Doves, the Espaa Tweety Birds and Damar's Kingfishers. No special prizes have been announced yet for the blind birders.

Credit Report Service On Saturday, team members and a dozen sighted birders gathered at the 12-acre Frontera Audubon Center in Weslaco, near the Mexican border, for some practice. One of the first to arrive was Jessica Garza, 31, a massage therapist from neighboring Pharr, who wore a denim cap with a plump cloth cardinal stitched to the bill.

Blogspot Com Christian "My parents were always naturalists, hunting and fishing," Ms. Garza said. "At the time I had full sight and never paid attention."

Christian Counseling Credit But at 14, she said, she developed a brain tumor around her optic nerve that cut off most of her vision. She said she grew devoted to birding four years ago after she prayed to be granted the sight of a hummingbird. One materialized, she said, and even with her hazy vision, she could see it hovering a few feet from her face.

Credit Federal Service Union "It turned and stared at me," she said. "That moment was amazing. I have never seen such beauty in my life."

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Credit Division Service Supported by grants from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the Texas Health Department, they and others were recruited by Mr. Reyes and Ms. Cruz, a rehabilitation counselor and college student from Edinburg, who was also blinded by a tumor. Some began by handling stuffed birds.

Card Credit Online Service "I love bird-watching," said Ms. Cruz, who arrived with recordings of bird songs to compare with those she heard and with her Braille list.

Consumer Counseling Credit Inc In the center's parking lot, they were greeted by the cries of long-tailed large brown birds that they had little trouble identifying as chachalacas, from their distinctive cries of "cha-cha-cha" and "laca-laca."

Card Credit Fleet Service "The birds are bird-watcher-watching," said Mr. Rodriguez, 37, who credits bird-watching with turning him away from a youthful life of hell-raising. Now he is an authority who several days before this gathering escorted Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, avid bird-watchers, through these same thickets.

Card Consolidation Credit "Roy," Ms. Torres announced as they entered the brush: "I spotted a golden-fronted woodpecker. A white-winged dove, too."

Credit Free Online Report He noted them down for the group on a list that would total 22 species, including a long-billed thrasher, a tropical parula and a buff-bellied hummingbird, by the end of the outing two hours later.

Credit Federal First Service A sudden bird song stopped them. "I know it! I know it! I know it!" Ms. Garza said. "It's on the top of my mind. Kind of like a flycatcher."

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Center Credit Family Service She got it. "Couch's kingbird," she said triumphantly.

Credit Reporting Service "Oh, listen, right above us," Mr. Rodriguez said. "Those are green parakeets. I think I have the voice of it." He played a tape recording so the group could study the sound.

Cca Credit Division Service Ms. Torres said she just heard a black-bellied whistling duck.

Credit Free Report Service No, he said, that was another green parakeet, with a yellow bill.

Card Credit Customer Discover Ms. Torres said she had never seen colors. But, she said: "If somebody tells me green, I say O.K., like grass. If they say yellow, it's like the sun."

Credit Repair Report Service From down the trail came Ms. Cruz's voice. "See, I told you, Reyes, it's a chachalaca."

Credit Legal Repair Service Ms. Torres brushed against the vegetation. "You have flowers on you," Mr. Rodriguez told her. "Lantana. Pink flowers. And you're wearing a pink shirt."

Cic Credit Monitoring Service A rustle to the side, at 3 o'clock in the directional parlance of the blind birders, signaled the arrival of a white-eyed vireo. Mr. Rodriguez mimicked the song. "It starts and ends in an accent," he said. "It kind of sounds like the scraping back of a rubber band."

Ccs Credit Division Service The bird called; another answered.

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1st Credit Service Union "Boyfriend girlfriend?" someone guessed.

Card Chase Credit Customer "Maybe not," Mr. Rodriguez answered. They were two territorially competitive males. "One's saying `I'm over here,' " he said; "the other's saying `I'm over here.' "

Card Chase Credit Service What color? Someone wanted to know. "It's a grayish bird," he said. "Very small. It does not like to come out in the open. It's the kind of bird you always hear and almost never see."

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Credit Plus Service Union By Ralph Blumenthal
New York Times - 4/13/2004

Topic: Birding

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