Rare Bird Alert
Jon Fisher
Rare Bird Alert - October 23, 2025

Eurasian Wigeon | Common Ground Dove | Pacific Golden-Plover | Sabine’s Gull | Lesser Black-backed Gull | Broad-winged Hawk | Short-eared Owl | Tropical Kingbird | Pacific Wren | Gray Catbird | Varied Thrush | Lapland Longspur | Clay-colored Sparrow | FIELD SPARROW | Dark-eyed “Gray-headed” Junco | Dark-eyed “Pink-sided” Junco | White-throated Sparrow | Green-tailed Towhee | Baltimore Oriole | Northern Waterthrush | Prothonotary Warbler | Tennessee Warbler | Lucy’s Warbler | American Redstart | Cape May Warbler | Blackburnian Warbler | Palm Warbler | Grace’s Warbler | Black-throated Green Warbler | Painted Redstart | Summer Tanager | Painted Bunting | Dickcissel

Rare Bird Alert
Jon Fisher
Rare Bird Alert - October 11, 2025

Greater Roadrunner | Pacific Golden-Plover | Broad-winged Hawk | Tropical Kingbird | GREATER PEWEE | Gray Catbird | Clay-colored Sparrow |Green-tailed Towhee | Bobolink | Baltimore Oriole | Northern Waterthrush | Black-and-white Warbler | Tennessee Warbler | American Redstart | Blackburnian Warbler | Blackpoll Warbler | Palm Warbler | Black-throated Green Warbler | Summer Tanager | Rose-breasted Grosbeak | Indigo Bunting

Rare Bird Alert
Jon Fisher
Rare Bird Alert - October 3, 2025

Pacific Golden-Plover | Dunlin | Red Knot | Common Tern | Sabine’s Gull | Short-tailed Shearwater | Red-footed Booby | Williamson’s Sapsucker | Tropical Kingbird | Least Flycatcher | Bell’s Vireo | Chestnut-collared Longspur | Lark Bunting | Clay-colored Sparrow | Baltimore Oriole | Green-tailed Towhee | Bobolink | Northern Waterthrush | Black-and-white Warbler | Tennessee Warbler | Lucy’s Warbler | Blackpoll Warbler | Palm Warbler | American Redstart | Blackburnian Warbler | Chestnut-sided Warbler | Blackpoll Warbler | Grace’s Warbler | Black-throated Green Warbler | Summer Tanager | Rose-breasted Grosbeak | Indigo Bunting | Painted Bunting | Dickcissel

BIRDS OF THE SEASON
Susan Castor
Birds of the Season — September 2025

As usual, June weather was mild.  Surprisingly July was also blessed with relatively cool temperatures, though the deserts were plenty warm.  Despite below average rainfall last winter, most habitat was in decent shape, and many streams held sufficient water.   

Birds of the Season — September 2025
Rare Bird Alert
Jon Fisher
Rare Bird Alert - September 26, 2025

Pacific Golden-Plover | Red Knot | Dunlin | Common Tern | Lesser Black-backed Gull | American Bittern | White-headed Woodpecker | Tropical Kingbird | Eastern Phoebe | Green-tailed Towhee | Ovenbird | Northern Waterthrush | Black-and-white Warbler | Tennessee Warbler | Summer Tanager | Rose-breasted Grosbeak | Indigo Bunting

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Western Tanager, Vol. 87 No. 1, Sep-Oct 2020

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PDF Vol. 87 No. 1 Sep–Oct 2020 Western Tanager

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

INTERPRETING NATURE — Baldwin Hills Greenhouse Program Research Projects, By Stacey Vigallon & Baldwin Hills Greenhouse Program Interns

OUTDOOR EDUCATION — “More on Perspective, Pandemic Changes”, By Cindy Hardin

YOUNG BIRDERS — “The Brown Pelican”, By Dessi Sieburth

WINGING IT: Discovering the Caribbean Birding Trail
Part 3—The Rare Birds of St. Lucia, By Lisa Freeman

BIRDS OF THE SEASON — August 2020, By Jon Fisher

BOOK REVIEW

A History of the World in 12 Maps AND Underland: A Deep Time Journey,
Written By Brandon Kim, Greenhouse Program Intern

FROM OUR READERS

The Spider and The Fly, By Ms. Sherry L. Roberts

A New Beginning, By Rachelle Arslan

Springtime in South Pasadena, By Mary Anne Lower and Julie Vogel

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Winging It: Discovering the Caribbean Birding Trail: Part 3: The Rare Birds of St. Lucia

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All of the island’s six endemic species—the St. Lucia Parrot, St. Lucia Peewee, St. Lucia Warbler, St. Lucia Oriole, St. Lucia Black Finch and this thrasher—face the same challenges: encroaching developers and predators demanding more turf on an island only 27 miles long and 14 miles wide. Fortunately, conservation efforts have, for now, saved important tracts of tropical and mountain forests like the Des Cartiers Rain Forest, the Edmund Forest Reserve, the Castries Water Works Reserve, and the Millet Bird Sanctuary.

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FROM OUR READERS: Springtime in South Pasadena During Covid Pandemic 2020

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FROM OUR READERS: Springtime in South Pasadena During Covid Pandemic 2020

It has been an eventful spring. Early I spotted a pair of Red Whiskered Bulbuls, a first for me. They must have been nesting nearby, as I saw and heard them all season. Next our ravens returned daily, in the carrotwood tree, enjoying the large berries, in spite of the 'gang' of Northern Mockingbirds dive bombing them and hissing away. It went on all afternoon for all of a month, and then one day in June they all vanished.

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OUTDOOR EDUCATION: More on Perspective

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The year 2020 has been rife with events unlike any that we have ever seen. Our way of life from a mere six months ago has changed in many new and challenging ways. Lots of new nomenclature is also popping up in the language that we use: compliance, non-compliance, rate per 100,000, unprecedented, synchronous, asynchronous, pandemic—the list goes on and on.

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Birds of the Season — August 2020, By Jon Fisher

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By normal standards the first half of the summer of 2020 was relatively mild. No complaints about that, as those lower temperatures mean a more pleasant time in the field. As of mid-August however both the heat and seemingly inevitable fire season had arrived.

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