Some of the best places to experience wildlife is in our own Los Angeles County botanic gardens.
Rare Bird Alert - January 21, 2022
Red-necked Grebe | Pacific Golden-Plover | Mountain Plover | Solitary Sandpiper | Red Knot | Lesser Black-backed Gull | Neotropic Cormorant | Zone-tailed Hawk | Rough-legged Hawk | Ash-throated Flycatcher | Tropical Kingbird | Hammond’s Flycatcher | Dusky Flycatcher | Pacific-slope Flycatcher | Eastern Phoebe | Cassin’s Vireo | Clay-colored Sparrow | Dark-eyed “Gray-headed” Junco | White-throated Sparrow | Green-tailed Towhee | Scott’s Oriole | Black-and-white Warbler | Lucy’s Warbler | American Redstart | Painted Redstart | Summer Tanager
Rare Bird Alert - January 14, 2022
Red-necked Grebe | Pacific Golden-Plover | Mountain Plover | Laughing Gull | Neotropic Cormorant | Zone-tailed Hawk | Rough-legged Hawk | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | “Black” Merlin | Ash-throated Flycatcher | Tropical Kingbird | Western Kingbird | Hammond’s Flycatcher | Pacific-slope Flycatcher | Eastern Phoebe | Cassin’s Vireo | Gray Catbird | Clay-colored Sparrow | Dark-eyed “Gray-headed” Junco | Harris’s Sparrow | White-throated Sparrow | Green-tailed Towhee | Hooded Oriole | Black-and-white Warbler | Lucy’s Warbler | American Redstart | Palm Warbler | Black-throated Green Warbler | Painted Redstart | Summer Tanager
Until Next Time ... Goodbye Sadie
Trial Winter Bird Atlas Underway
Longtime Los Angeles birders will remember the massive volunteer effort that went into the Los Angeles County Breeding Bird Atlas. Fieldwork for that project was from 1995 to 1999, which will be 30 years ago in 2025. Given the time that has passed and the changes in the county, birders are thinking about an update of the Atlas.
Rare Bird Alert - January 7, 2022
Long-tailed Duck | White-winged Dove | Pacific Golden-Plover | Laughing Gull | Lesser Black-backed Gull | Red-footed Booby | Zone-tailed Hawk | Rough-legged Hawk | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | Ash-throated Flycatcher | GREATER PEWEE | Tropical Kingbird | Hammond’s Flycatcher | Pacific-slope Flycatcher | Eastern Phoebe | Cassin’s Vireo | American Pipit (japonicus) | Dark-eyed “Pink-sided” Junco | Dark-eyed “Gray-headed” Junco | Harris’s Sparrow | White-throated Sparrow | Green-tailed Towhee | Black-and-white Warbler | Lucy’s Warbler | American Redstart | Black-throated Green Warbler | Painted Redstart | Summer Tanager
Island Hopping—Birding the U.S. Virgin Islands, Part 3: St. Thomas — Gateway to the Caribbean
Birds of the Season — December 2021
Rare Bird Alert - December 31, 2021
Mountain Plover | Laughing Gull | Lesser Black-backed Gull | Zone-tailed Hawk | Rough-legged Hawk | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | Northern “Yellow-shafted” Flicker | Ash-throated Flycatcher | Tropical Kingbird | Pacific-slope Flycatcher | Eastern Phoebe | American Pipit (japonicus) | Dark-eyed “Pink-sided” Junco | Harris’s Sparrow | Green-tailed Towhee | Black-and-white Warbler | Lucy’s Warbler | American Redstart | Black-throated Green Warbler | Painted Redstart | Black-headed Grosbeak | Painted Bunting
Rare Bird Alert - December 24, 2021
Tundra Swan | Red-necked Grebe | Mountain Plover | Solitary Sandpiper | Lesser Black-backed Gull | Neotropic Cormorant | Zone-tailed Hawk | Rough-legged Hawk | “Prairie” Merlin | Ash-throated Flycatcher | Tropical Kingbird | Hammond’s Flycatcher | Dusky Flycatcher | Pacific-slope Flycatcher | Eastern Phoebe | Cassin’s Vireo | Mountain Bluebird | Varied Thrush | Clay-colored Sparrow | Dark-eyed “Gray-headed” Junco | Dark-eyed “Pink-sided” Junco | Harris’s Sparrow | White-throated Sparrow | Green-tailed Towhee | Hooded Oriole | Scott’s Oriole | Black-and-white Warbler | Lucy’s Warbler | Chestnut-sided Warbler | Black-throated Green Warbler | Painted Redstart | Summer Tanager