TUNDRA BEAN-GOOSE | White-winged Dove | Solitary Sandpiper | Red-billed Tropicbird | Cattle Egret | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | Broad-winged Hawk | Zone-tailed Hawk | Tropical Kingbird | Lapland Longspur | Clay-colored Sparrow | Black-and-white Warbler | Prothonotary Warbler | Blackpoll Warbler | Magnolia Warbler | Chestnut-sided Warbler | Palm Warbler | Painted Redstart | Summer Tanager | Dickcissel
Rare Bird Alert - October 6, 2023
TUNDRA BEAN-GOOSE | Lesser Black-backed Gull | Cattle Egret | Zone-tailed Hawk | Brown-crested Flycatcher | Tropical Kingbird | Yellow-throated Vireo | Sage Thrasher | Lark Bunting | Clay-colored Sparrow | Bobolink | Orchard Oriole | Northern Waterthrush | Black-and-white Warbler | Prothonotary Warbler | Tennessee Warbler | Lucy’s Warbler | Virginia’s Warbler | Northern Parula | Chestnut-sided Warbler | Blackpoll Warbler | Palm Warbler | Summer Tanager
Rare Bird Alert - September 29, 2023
TUNDRA BEAN-GOOSE | Pacific Golden-Plover | Dunlin | Sabine’s Gull | Common Tern | American Bittern | GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER | Eastern Phoebe | Pinyon Jay | Red-throated Pipit | Vesper Sparrow | Orchard Oriole | Black-and-white Warbler | Tennessee Warbler | Lucy’s Warbler | Virginia’s Warbler | American Redstart | Magnolia Warbler | Chestnut-sided Warbler | Blackpoll Warbler | Summer Tanager | Painted Bunting | Dickcissel
Rare Bird Alert - September 22, 2023
TUNDRA BEAN-GOOSE | American Oystercatcher | Pacific Golden-Plover | Common Tern | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | Tropical Kingbird | Eastern Kingbird | Purple Martin | Lark Bunting | Northern Waterthrush | Black-and-white Warbler | Tennessee Warbler | Lucy’s Warbler | Virginia’s Warbler | American Redstart | Magnolia Warbler | Blackburnian Warbler | Chestnut-sided Warbler | Blackpoll Warbler | Summer Tanager | Dickcissel
Rare Bird Alert - September 15, 2023
TUNDRA BEAN-GOOSE | White-winged Dove | Pacific Golden-Plover | Red Knot | Black Tern | Common Tern | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | SULPHUR-BELLIED FLYCATCHER | Tropical Kingbird | Eastern Kingbird | Purple Martin | Red Crossbill | Lark Bunting | Northern Waterthrush | Black-and-white Warbler | Tennessee Warbler | Virginia’s Warbler | Blackburnian Warbler | Canada Warbler | Summer Tanager
Arctic-Breeding Greater Yellowlegs Tracked to Los Angeles River
How do you know when a Greater Yellowlegs is near? It'll tell you. These gregarious shorebirds (Tringa melanoleuca) breed in boggy forest edges in the subarctic, along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska and in central Canada. Despite their conspicuous behavior both on the breeding grounds and during migration, Greater Yellowlegs are a particularly poorly understood species. While on-the-ground observations help us understand their range and habitat use at a species-level, until this year their migration had never been tracked from a bird's eye view. We didn't know the routes different populations use, what stopover sites are important, how they are connected and what an individual bird's migratory strategy looks like. Tracking data fills these gaps and informs our conservation priorities for populations.
Rare Bird Alert - September 8, 2023
TUNDRA BEAN-GOOSE | Pacific Golden-Plover | Red Knot | Semipalmated Sandpiper | Black Tern | Common Tern | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | Merlin | Eastern Kingbird | Lucy’s Warbler | Tennessee Warbler | American Redstart | Chestnut-sided Warbler | Blackburnian Warbler | RED-FACED WARBLER | Summer Tanager | Painted Bunting
Birds of the Season—August 2023
Following a relatively cool early July, summer finally arrived. Temperatures increased and some weak systems brought a modicum of subtropical moisture. Thankfully there were no significant wildfires locally thus far.
But the stunner from a weather and birding perspective was a very strong tropical storm- the remnants of hurricane Hilary— that hit the county on August 20. This event dumped five inches of rain or more in many locations and was accompanied by high winds in many places. The added precipitation from Hilary makes severe fires even less likely, but not out of the question.