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
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.
February and early March offered typically pleasant weather, with many continuing rare birds and a handful of new ones, as well as the arrival of a few Neotropical migrants. By late March these migrants were becoming more obvious and widespread, with some already on territory. Breeding activity for resident birds was underway well before that.
The Rann of Kutch is a vast area of salt desert / salt marsh located in the north-west of the Indian State of Gujrat. It borders the Arabian sea on the west, the Indus river delta to the north and stretches east for about 250 miles. It is split into the Great Rann and the Little Rann, somewhat loosely, based on ability to access and administer the vast region. It is arguably the largest salt desert / marshland in the world, covering an area of about 10,000 sq. miles. Desert or marshland?
The regular meeting of the department of California History and Landmarks [of the Ebell Club] met on April 26 [1917] …
Miss Phillipson introduced Mrs. Harriet Myers, secretary of the Audubon Society and chairman of the Department of Birds, Wildlife and Flowers of the General and State Federations [of Women’s Clubs]. Her subject was California birds.
The endangered Imperial Parrot | Photo by P. Reillo, RSCF, TCI/FIU.
WINGING IT—Discovering the Caribbean Birding Trail, Part II, Dominica — The Rare Parrots' Paradise | By Robbie Lisa Freeman
BIRDS OF THE SEASON — June 2020 | By Jon Fisher
YOUNG BIRDERS—Charismatic and Clever: The Cactus Wren (campylorhynchus brunneicapillus) | By Dessi Sieburth
OUTDOOR EDUCATION—Experience & Perspective | By Cindy Hardin
INTERPRETING NATURE—Making Connections Between Birding and Food Gardening | By Ingrid Carrillo
CONSERVATION CORNER—Rio de Los Angeles State Park Riparian Breeders | By Andy Birch
Top Ways To Preserve Nature While Hiking, by Rachel Gaffney
Photo Essay — India Journal: December 2019, by Rustom Jamadar
The Fledgling, by Brenda Rees
Owls Nesting in Our Yard, by Janice Rayman
Reclaiming Ourselves Through Nature, by Danny Humphrey
Two Robins in a Birdbath, by Janine Soucie Kelley
No Sparrows, by Annie Margis
Birding Notes from the Ebell Club 1917, by Judith Thompson
POEM: Ballona Stories, by Joyce Karel
Once in a while, it’s good to celebrate a conservation success story on public land, right in the heart of the city. Rio de Los Angeles State Park appears to be a real success story in terms of re-wilding a small section of a park that sits within an intensely urbanized setting. The park is located in northeast Los Angeles, approximately 2.5 miles north of downtown and is located next to the former Union Pacific Rail Yard called the Taylor Yard complex, which is also under active long-term planning as a city park.
Being visited by wild birds while working in my outdoor office is an invigorating momentary distraction from my labors. Every morning before I plug in on the patio table, I open my rodent-proof bird food container and scoop out seeds. nyjer for the goldfinches, corn for the sparrows, black sunflower seeds for the mockingbirds, suet for whatever bird comes to call, plus sugar-water for the hummingbirds.
Not exotica that you would grab your bins, rev-up your SUV and drive across three states to observe, beaming with pride as you record its sighting and count on eBird. Rather the robin is a friendly bird, more like a next-door neighbor.
You won’t have to trek to the Amazon or Patagonia to see a robin, though once-in-a-lifetime trips like those are inked on many a bucket list. No. You will spy the robin in Ponderosa pine forests, urban landscapes and grassy lawns pecking the ground for earthworms. Her nest is made of mud, her eggs an eponymous and beautiful blue that you just might decide is the perfect color for your kitchen.
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