White-winged Dove | Sandhill Crane | American Oystercatcher | Pacific Golden-Plover | Mountain Plover | Lesser Black-backed Gull | Neotropic Cormorant | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | California Condor | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | Dusky-capped Flycatcher | Brown-crested Flycatcher | Western Kingbird | Least Flycatcher | Hammond’s Flycatcher | Eastern Phoebe | Cassin’s Vireo | Dark-eyed “Pink-sided” Junco | Dark-eyed “Gray-headed” Junco | Harris’s Sparrow | White-throated Sparrow | Swamp Sparrow | Green-tailed Towhee | Scott’s Oriole | Black-and-white Warbler | Tennessee Warbler | Nashville Warbler | Cape May Warbler | Palm Warbler | Painted Redstart | Summer Tanager
Rare Bird Alert - February 2, 2023
Long-tailed Duck | White-winged Dove | American Oystercatcher | Pacific Golden-Plover | Lesser Black-backed Gull | Neotropic Cormorant | California Condor | Zone-tailed Hawk | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | Dusky-capped Flycatcher | Ash-throated Flycatcher | Tropical Kingbird | Hammond’s Flycatcher | Pacific-slope Flycatcher | Cassin’s Vireo | Pacific Wren | Dark-eyed “Pink-sided” Junco | Dark-eyed “Gray-headed” Junco | Harris’s Sparrow | Swamp Sparrow | Hooded Oriole | Black-and-white Warbler | Tennessee Warbler | Cape May Warbler | Painted Redstart | Summer Tanager
Rare Bird Alert - January 27, 2023
White-winged Scoter | Black Scoter | Long-tailed Duck | White-winged Dove | Sandhill Crane | Pacific Golden-Plover | Mountain Plover | Lesser Black-backed Gull | Neotropic Cormorant | Brown Booby | Zone-tailed Hawk | Northern “Yellow-shafted” Flicker | Dusky-capped Flycatcher | Tropical Kingbird | Western Kingbird | Hammond’s Flycatcher | Pacific-slope Flycatcher | Eastern Phoebe | Bell’s Vireo | Dark-eyed “Pink-sided” Junco | Swamp Sparrow | Green-tailed Towhee | Hooded Oriole | Black-and-white Warbler | Cape May Warbler | Palm Warbler | Painted Redstart | Summer Tanager | Black-headed Grosbeak
Rare Bird Alert - January 20, 2023
White-winged Dove | Sandhill Crane | American Oystercatcher | Pacific Golden-Plover | Lesser Black-backed Gull | Neotropic Cormorant | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | Zone-tailed Hawk | Dusky-capped Flycatcher | Tropical Kingbird | Western Kingbird | Hammond’s Flycatcher | Eastern Phoebe | SEDGE WREN | Clay-colored Sparrow | Dark-eyed “Pink-sided” Junco | Dark-eyed “Gray-headed” Junco | White-throated Sparrow | Swamp Sparrow | Green-tailed Towhee | Baltimore Oriole | Black-and-white Warbler | Tennessee Warbler | Nashville Warbler | Cape May Warbler | Palm Warbler | Painted Redstart | Summer Tanager
Rare Bird Alert - January 13, 2023
Tundra Swan | Sandhill Crane | Pacific Golden-Plover | Red Knot | Neotropic Cormorant | Zone-tailed Hawk | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | Dusky-capped Flycatcher | Ash-throated Flycatcher | Tropical Kingbird | Hammond’s Flycatcher | Eastern Phoebe | Cassin’s Vireo | SEDGE WREN | Lapland Longspur | Clay-colored Sparrow | Dark-eyed “Pink-sided” Junco | Dark-eyed “Gray-headed” Junco | White-throated Sparrow | Swamp Sparrow | Green-tailed Towhee | Hooded Oriole | Black-and-white Warbler | Cape May Warbler | Palm Warbler | Painted Redstart | Summer Tanager
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
Rare Bird Alert - January 6, 2023
Long-tailed Duck | Sandhill Crane | Pacific Golden-Plover | Mountain Plover | Red Knot | Lesser Black-backed Gull | Neotropic Cormorant | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | Swainson’s Hawk | Zone-tailed Hawk | Northern “Yellow-shafted” Flicker | Dusky-capped Flycatcher | Ash-throated Flycatcher | Brown-crested Flycatcher | Tropical Kingbird | Hammond’s Flycatcher | Pacific-slope Flycatcher | Eastern Phoebe | Pacific Wren | Lapland Longspur | Clay-colored Sparrow | Dark-eyed “Gray-headed” Junco | Dark-eyed “Pink-sided” Junco | White-throated Sparrow | Green-tailed Towhee | Baltimore Oriole | Scott’s Oriole | Black-and-white Warbler | Nashville Warbler | Northern Parula | Cape May Warbler | Palm Warbler | Painted Redstart | Summer Tanager
Replay - Dr. Rebeca Méndez - CircumSolar
CircumSolar is a long-term project by Rebeca Méndez where she follows the journey of a small bird, the arctic tern (sterna paradisaea) on its annual migration from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back again, an approximate 55,000-mile journey that is the longest migration recorded. With the tern as its protagonist, CircumSolar looks to explore larger themes critical to our time, such as the unstoppable force of migration, the ecological concern of climate change, the VI mass extinction, and the geopolitics of the changing landscapes of coastal lands and the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Watch the presentation from December 9, 2020.
Rare Bird Alert - December 30, 2022
Sandhill Crane | Tufted Puffin | Lesser Black-backed Gull | Neotropic Cormorant | California Condor | Zone-tailed Hawk | Short-eared Owl | Northern “Yellow-shafted” Flicker | Dusky-capped Flycatcher | Tropical Kingbird | Hammond’s Flycatcher | Pacific-slope Flycatcher | Eastern Phoebe | Pacific Wren | Lapland Longspur | Chestnut-collared Longspur | Dark-eyed “Gray-headed” Junco | Dark-eyed “Pink-sided” Junco | Green-tailed Towhee | Swamp Sparrow | White-throated Sparrow | Hooded Oriole | Baltimore Oriole | Black-and-white Warbler | Nashville Warbler | Northern Parula | Palm Warbler | Painted Redstart | Summer Tanager | Black-headed Grosbeak
Rare Bird Alert - December 23, 2022
Mountain Plover | Lesser Black-backed Gull | Pacific Loon | Neotropic Cormorant | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | Zone-tailed Hawk | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | Tropical Kingbird | Hammond’s Flycatcher | Pacific-slope Flycatcher | Eastern Phoebe | Warbling Vireo | Pacific Wren | SEDGE WREN | Gray Catbird | Clay-colored Sparrow | Dark-eyed “Gray-headed” Junco | Dark-eyed “Pink-sided” Junco | White-throated Sparrow | Swamp Sparrow | Hooded Oriole | Black-and-white Warbler | Tennessee Warbler | Nashville Warbler | American Redstart | Chestnut-sided Warbler | Palm Warbler | Painted Redstart | Summer Tanager