Rare Bird Alert
Jon Fisher
Rare Bird Alert - May 1, 2026

White-winged Dove | American Golden-Plover | Brown Pelican | Western Cattle-Egret | Zone-tailed Hawk | Tropical Kingbird | Purple Martin | Palm Warbler

Rare Bird Alert
Jon Fisher
Rare Bird Alert - April 24, 2026

White-winged Dove | Solitary Sandpiper | Brown Pelican | Tropical Kingbird | THICK-BILLED KINGBIRD | Clay-colored Sparrow | White-throated Sparrow | Green-tailed Towhee | Black-and-white Warbler | Chestnut-sided Warbler | Summer Tanager | Indigo Bunting

Rare Bird Alert
Jon Fisher
Rare Bird Alert - April 16, 2026

Red-necked Grebe | Inca Dove | White-winged Dove | Pectoral Sandpiper | Solitary Sandpiper | Red-throated Loon | Brown Pelican | Western Cattle-Egret | CRESTED CARACARA | Tropical Kingbird | THICK-BILLED KINGBIRD | White-throated Sparrow | Green-tailed Towhee | Ovenbird | Northern Waterthrush | Black-and-white Warbler | Tennessee Warbler | Chestnut-sided Warbler | Palm Warbler | Pine Warbler | Black-throated Green Warbler | Summer Tanager | Indigo Bunting

Rare Bird Alert
Jon Fisher
Rare Bird Alert - April 4, 2026

Red-necked Grebe | Brown Pelican | White-throated Sparrow | Green-tailed Towhee | Lucy’s Warbler | Northern Parula | Palm Warbler | Pine Warbler | Black-throated Green Warbler | Summer Tanager

Field Trips
Susan Castor
4th of July Weekend 2026—Owl Prowl Adventure in ...

We will be leading a Southern Sierra Nevada Owl Prowl July 3-6 Friday to Monday (departure day). Three nights of owling, (and days of birding) SWEEEETTTT!! We have been leading this trip for 20 years or so. If you can’t bear to stay up after midnight, or sleep in a bit, please reconsider.

John Schmitt, illustrator of the National Geographic Field Guide will join us as a co-leader.

4th of July Weekend 2026—Owl Prowl Adventure in the Southern Sierra Nevada

Volume 89

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Western Tanager, Jul–Aug 2023, Vol. 89 No. 6

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Crested Caracara, photo courtesy of Randy Freeman.

PDF, V89 N6 Jul–Aug 2023
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Western Tanager, January–February 2023, Vol. 89 No. 3

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Western Tanager, January–February 2023, Vol. 89 No. 3

Inside This Issue

  • Pelagic Birding: A Birder’s Box of Chocolates, by Robbie Lisa Freeman

  • Ten Tips To Prepare for Your First Pelagic, by Robbie Lisa Freeman

  • Snowy Owl in San Pedro, by Andy Dowdell

  • Conservation Conversation, by Travis Longcore (Wildness in Our City, Farewell, P-22, Seeing the Wild at Silver Lake Reservoir, Wild Under Threat at Ballona)

  • Birds of the Season — December 2022

  • Christmas Count, by Linda Sheehan

  • January 11th Online Presentation — Scaring Birds for Science, with Mario Díaz presenting

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Western Tanager—Nov-Dec 2022

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This is the November–December 2022, Western Tanager, Vol. 89 No. 2.

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Lead Article: Native-plant landscaping in residential yards provides habitat and refuge for birds in Southern California

CONSERVATION CONVERSATION, Goose in the Lights

Christmas Bird Count 2022

Birds of the Season–October 2022

Monthly Program Presentations

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