Common Ground Dove | Pacific Golden-Plover | Mountain Plover | Solitary Sandpiper | Neotropic Cormorant | American Bittern | Zone-tailed Hawk | Rough-legged Hawk | Ash-throated Flycatcher | Brown-crested Flycatcher | Tropical Kingbird | Pacific-slope Flycatcher | Eastern Phoebe | Bell’s Vireo | Cliff Swallow | American Pipit (japonicus) | Clay-colored Sparrow | Dark-eyed “Gray-headed” Junco | Dark-eyed “Pink-sided” Junco | White-throated Sparrow | Green-tailed Towhee | Hooded Oriole | Scott’s Oriole | Black-and-white Warbler | American Redstart | Black-throated Green Warbler | Painted Redstart | Summer Tanager
LAAS Monthly Program Presentation-Wednesday, February 9, 2022
Wed., Feb 9, 2022 Online monthly program presentation.
Dr. Eric Wood - Income inequality, racial segregation, and urban avifauna: the tale of Los Angeles
Wednesday, February 9, 2022
7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Dr. Eric Wood, head of the Wood Lab of Avian and Urban Ecology at Cal State Los Angeles, will present results from his most recent research on the effects of segregation and inequality on bird abundance and diversity in Los Angeles.
The presentation will be online at: https://bluejeans.com/250466464/6974
Rare Bird Alert - January 28, 2022
Common Ground-Dove | Pacific Golden-Plover | Mountain Plover | Solitary Sandpiper | Neotropic Cormorant | American Bittern | Zone-tailed Hawk | Rough-legged Hawk | Northern “Yellow-shafted” Flicker | Ash-throated Flycatcher | Eastern Phoebe | Cassin’s Vireo | Clay-colored Sparrow | Swamp Sparrow | Dark-eyed “Pink-sided” Junco | White-throated Sparrow | Green-tailed Towhee | Scott’s Oriole | Black-and-white Warbler | American Redstart | Painted Redstart | Summer Tanager
Western Tanager, Volume 88 No. 3, January–February 2022
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Western Tanager, Vol. 88 No. 3, January-February 2022
•Birds of the Season — December 2021, •Island Hopping: Birding the U.S. Virgin Islands, Part 3: St. Thomas – Gateway to the Caribbean, •Trial Winter Bird Atlas Underway, •Until Next Time ... Goodbye Sadie, •A Botanical County, •Ballona Wetlands Learning Experiences–Interview with Ethan Greenberg
Ballona Wetlands Learning Experiences
As Director of Outdoor Education for Los Angeles Audubon, I routinely see over 3,000 students a year on field trips to the Ballona Wetlands and Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area. For the most part, we only see these students on one or two field trips, and then they are off to the next grade level and onward.
It is difficult to really quantify the impact of the students’ experience from these trips, but occasionally a past attendee resurfaces, and we find that their field trip(s) really did have an impact on their lives and learning experiences. Ethan Greenberg is one such student, and I had the delightful experience of re-connecting with him last year as he worked on a special project for students deprived of a field trip due to the pandemic. Ethan graciously agreed to be interviewed about his experience at Ballona and the effect that it has had on his life. I am thrilled to share his thoughts with you, and to see that our mission to connect young people with wildlife can be quite substantive.
A Botanical County
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.