Western Tanager, Vol. 84 No. 6, Jul-Aug 2018

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Western Tanager, Vol. 84 No. 6, Jul-Aug 2018

• Book Review: The Dragonflies and Damselflies of Santa Barbara County, California | Kimball L. Garrett

•Green Feather Award Winner 2018: “Let Her Play” | Aisling Murray

• INTERPRETING NATURE: Baldwin Hills Greenhouse Program Research | Stacey Vigallon

• YOUNG BIRDERS: A New Discovery - Our Rufous Hummingbirds Molt in the Mexican Monsoonal Region | Dessi Sieburth

• Birds of the Season: June 2018 | Jon Fisher

Western Tanager, Vol. 84 No. 5, May-Jun 2018

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Western Tanager, Vol. 84 No. 5, May-June 2018

• Snowy Plover Conservation Program Faces An Uncertain Future

• YOUNG BIRDERS: A Striking African Bird in Los Angeles County: The Pin‐tailed Whydah (Vidua macroura), By Dessi Sieburth

• INTERPRETING NATURE: Using science fiction to envision the future, By Stacey Vigallon, Director of Environmental Education

• Birds of The Season—April 2018, By Jon Fisher

• INTERVIEW: Allow Me the Honor To Introduce To You: Irwin Woldman, By Louis Tucker

• Least Tern Monitoring At Seal Beach National Wildlife Refuge, By Carolyn Vance, USFWS Volunteer, Seal Beach NWR

Western Tanager, Vol. 84 No. 4, Mar-Apr 2018

Owens Valley, April 2017 | Photo by Mary Freeman

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Western Tanager, Vol. 84 No. 4, March-April 2018

• The California Condor, By Dessi Sieburth

• Birding in Belize: A Guide Shares His Top Five Sites, By Lisa Freeman

• Birds of the Season—February 2018, By Jon Fisher

• Beautiful Ballona: What’s The Latest?, By Cindy Hardin

• In Memory of Howard King, By Nick Freeman

Western Tanager, Vol. 84 No. 2, Nov-Dec 2017

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• What’s to Become of the Ballona Wetlands? By David DeLange, PhD, Vice President – Los Angeles Audubon

• YOUNG BIRDERS: The Western Bluebird Conservation Project, By Dessi Sieburth

• Ballona Chronicles: A Bicycle Built for Three, By Bev-Sue Powers, www.ballonaphotography.com

• Baldwin Hills program gives young people hands-on training in science and restoration. By Natasha Khann

• INTERPRETING NATURE: 2016–2017 Greenhouse Intern Project Abstracts, By Stacey Vigallon, Director of Intrpretation, and the Baldwin Hills Greenhouse Interns

• CONSERVATION GRANT: "Ballona to the Beach", By Carol Babeli, Director of Communications and Development

• Birds of the Season—October 2017, by Jon Fisher

Western Tanager, Vol. 84 No. 1, Sep-Oct 2017

ON THE COVER: Shoreline, Crystal Cove, Photo by Leslie Davidson

Crystal Cove is located in Orange County off the busy Pacific Coast Highway. Crystal

Cove State Park offers hiking in the deeply wooded canyons and water activities at the tide pools and sandy beaches.

My name is Leslie Davidson and I have been a docent at the Ballona Wetlands for the past 17 years. I enjoy photographing nature and love sharing my hobby with others.

Camera: Nikon Coolpix P510

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Western Tanager, Vol. 84 No. 1, September-October 2017

• PHOTO ESSAY: Audubon Docents: The Things We Saw, By Photo Essay | By Cindy Hardin, Director of Outdoor Education and Photos by Leslie Davidson

• YOUNG BIRDERS: Project Puffin — Audubon’s Seabird Restoration Project in Maine | By Dessi Sieburth

• Coots Make Me Smile, By Contributing Author, Bev‐Sue Powers, (www.BallonaPhotography.com)

• INTERPRETING NATURE: Aspiring Botanist Goes Plant‐hunting from Baldwin Hills to Yosemite, By Arely Mendia Perez, Environment for the Americas Intern, and Stacey Vigallon, Director of Environmental Education

• Birds of the Season – August 2017, By Jon Fisher