Rare Bird Alert
Jon Fisher
Rare Bird Alert - October 3, 2026

Ridgway’s Rail | Sabine’s Gull | Manx Shearwater| Nazca Booby | Cocos Booby | Western Cattle-Egret | Williamson’s Sapsucker | Tropical Kingbird | Least Flycatcher | Pinyon Jay | Clark’s Nutcracker | Yellow-green Vireo | Evening Grosbeak | Lark Bunting | Clay-colored Sparrow | Green-tailed Towhee | Orchard Oriole | Northern Waterthrush | Black-and-white Warbler | Tennessee Warbler | Lucy’s Warbler | American Redstart | Northern Parula | Magnolia Warbler | Blackburnian Warbler | Chestnut-sided Warbler | Blackpoll Warbler | Palm Warbler | Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Rare Bird Alert
Jon Fisher
Rare Bird Alert - September 26, 2026

Ridgway’s Rail | Semipalmated Sandpiper | Red Phalarope | Common Tern | Little Gull | Least Bittern | Reddish Egret | Williamson’s Sapsucker | Tropical kingbird | Least Flycatcher | Bell’s Vireo | Yellow-Green Vireo | Pinyon Jay | Clark’s Nutcracker | Purple Martin | Evening Grosbeak | Black-throated Sparrow | Clay-colored Sparrow | Green-tailed Towhee | Bobolink | Orchard Oriole | Ovenbird | Northern Waterthrush | Black-and-white Warbler | Prothonotary Warbler | Tennessee Warbler | Lucy’s Warbler | American Redstart | Cape May Warbler | Northern Parula | Blackburnian Warbler | Chestnut-sided Warbler | Blackpoll Warbler | Summer Tanager | Rose-breasted Grosbeak | Indigo Bunting | Painted Bunting | Dickcissel

Rare Bird Alert
Jon Fisher
Rare Bird Alert - September 19, 2026

Hooded Merganser | White-winged Dove | Ridgway’s Rail | Dunlin | Common Tern | Sabine’s Gull | Wilson’s Storm-Petrel | Wedge-rumped Storm-Petrel | Western Cattle Egret | Red-footed Booby | Reddish Egret | Bald Eagle | Zone-tailed Hawk | Pinyon Jay | Clark’s Nutcracker | Purple Martin | Black-throated Sparrow | Clay-colored Sparrow | Green-tailed Towhee | Bobolink | Northern Waterthrush | Tennessee Warbler | Lucy’s Warbler | American Redstart | Cape May Warbler | Summer Tanager | Rose-breasted Grosbeak | Indigo Bunting

Rare Bird Alert
Jon Fisher
Rare Bird Alert - September 12, 2026

Hooded Merganser | White-winged Dove | Common Tern | Red-billed Tropicbird | Nazca Booby | Cocos Booby | Brown Pelican | Ferruginous Hawk | Purple Martin | Green-tailed Towhee | Tennessee Warbler | Virgina’s Warbler | American Redstart | Summer Tanager | Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Rare Bird Alert
Jon Fisher
Rare Bird Alert - September 5, 2026

Hooded Merganser | White-winged Dove | Semipalmated Sandpiper | Red Phalarope | Common Tern | Nazca Booby | Cocos Booby | Brown Pelican | Purple Martin | Green-tailed Towhee | Bobolink | Northern Waterthrush | Lucy’s Warbler | Summer Tanager

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Western Tanager, Jul–Aug 2023, Vol. 89 No. 6

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Crested Caracara, photo courtesy of Randy Freeman.

PDF, V89 N6 Jul–Aug 2023
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Crested Caracara Soars Into the Spotlight, Setting New State Record at Ballona Wetlands

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Crested Caracara Soars Into the Spotlight, Setting New State Record at Ballona Wetlands

For Van Pierszalowski, Sunday June 4, 2023 was just another day doing what he loves to do: chasing down rare birds across Southern California. He wasn’t expecting to become a part of California birding lore.

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Birds of the Season — June 2023

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After peaking in late April, spring migration continued for the next two months at a reduced pace. This period managed to produce a satisfying number of vagrants which were found on offshore islands, the coastal slope and on the desert and were recorded into the third week of June.

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