Rare Bird Alert - January 3, 2020
Trumpeter Swan | Red-necked Grebe | White-winged Dove | American Oytercatcher | Pacific Golden-Plover | Solitary Sandpiper | Short-eared Owl | Northern "Yellow-shafted" Flicker | "Black" Merlin | Ash-throated Flycatcher | Brown-crested Flycatcher | Tropical Kingbird | Greater Pewee | Pacific-slope Flycatcher | Eastern Phoebe | Cassin's Vireo | Cliff Swallow | Dark-eyed "Gray-headed" Junco | Dark-eyed "Pink-sided" Junco | Orchard Oriole | Black-and-white Warbler| Northern Parula | Palm Warbler | Painted Redstart | Summer Tanager
Rare Bird Alert - December 20, 2019
Tundra Swan | Black Scoter | White-winged Dove | American Oystercatcher | Neotropic Cormorant | Hammond’s Flycatcher | Eastern Phoebe | Cassin’s Vireo | Pacific Wren | Green-tailed Towhee | Clay-colored Sparrow | White-throated Sparrow | Dark-eyed “Gray-headed” Junco | Orchard Oriole | Black-and-white Warbler | American Redstart | Painted Redstart
Rare Bird Alert - December 13, 2019
Tundra Swan | White-winged Scoter | Black Scoter | Red-necked Grebe | White-winged Dove | American Oystercatcher | Pacific Golden-Plover |Pacific Loon | “Black” Merlin | Ash-throated Flycatcher | Tropical Kingbird | Hammond’s Flycatcher | Pacific-slope Flycatcher | Pacific Wren | Harris’s Sparrow | Dark-eyed “Gray-headed” Junco | Black-and-white Warbler | Painted Redstart | Summer Tanager
Rare Bird Alert - December 6, 2019
White-winged Scoter | Black Scoter | Red-necked Grebe | White-winged Dove | Vaux’s Swift | American Oystercatcher | American Bittern | Broad-winged Hawk | Ash-throated Flycatcher | Tropical Kingbird | Eastern Phoebe | Cassin’s Vireo | Evening Grosbeak | Clay-colored Sparrow | White-throated Sparrow | Nashville Warbler | Hepatic Tanager | Summer Tanager
Rare Bird Alert - November 15, 2019
White-winged Scoter | Black Scoter | Long-tailed Duck | White-winged Dove | Sandhill Crane | American Oystercatcher | Pacific Golden-Plover | Red Knot | Laughing Gull | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | Ash-throated Flycatcher | Tropical Kingbird | Hammond’s Flycatcher | Red-throated Pipit | Lapland Longspur | Clay-colored Sparrow | Grasshopper Sparrow | White-throated Sparrow | Dark-eyed “Gray-headed” Junco | Bobolink | Black-and-white Warbler | MacGillivray’s Warbler | American Redstart | Painted Redstart | Summer Tanager | Lazuli Bunting | Painted Bunting
Birds of the Season — October 2019
There’s no doubt that fall migration is a great time for birders. “Southbound migration” might be a better term, given that the passage takes place from June through November. Even that isn’t exact, as not all migrants are headed south. Tropical Kingbirds are an obvious example of a species whose movements are to the north and west.
Message From Your President
As President of Los Angeles Audubon Society, I want to thank you, members and volunteers, all for a great year! As I look back over 2019, I am grateful to have been a part of our efforts at conservation, community science, education, and spreading the joy of bird watching. With the recent reports of the decline of bird numbers (insert citation), our efforts at local conservation and habitat restoration is what we can do to make a difference. Think globally but act locally – That is what we are doing here in Los Angeles to provide more and better habitat for birds and humans alike.
Western Tanager, Vol. 86 No. 2, Nov–Dec 2019
INSIDE THIS ISSUE, Vol 86 No. 2 Nov–Dec 2019
•Malibu Coast - Field Trip Report
•BOOK REVIEW: The Soul of an Octopus — A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
•The Los Angeles Audubon Society’s Condor Fund — A Short History
•Birds of the Season - October 2019
SCHEDULES
Field Trips https://www.laaudubon.org/field-trips
Bird Walks https://www.laaudubon.org/bird-walks
MONTHLY SPEAKER SERIES
MONTHLY SPEAKER SERIES PRESENTATIONS — Nov. 13 & Dec. 11, 2019
• Wed., Nov. 13, 2019 — UCLA: A Living Laboratory for Urban Ecology and Sustainability, with speaker Nurit Katz
• Wed. Dec. 11, 2019 — Galapagos Memories, presented by Photographer / Naturalist, Jerome Gaw
The Los Angeles Audubon Society’s Condor Fund: A Short History
Since 1934, the Los Angeles Audubon Society has been publishing a regular newsletter titled Western Tanager. In reviewing back issues for mentions of the California condor, I was struck by the number of mentions to the group’s fund for the condor.
In this post, I report some of what I learned about the organization’s fund-raising for the California condor from issues of Western Tanager dated 1939-1969.