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, Nov-Dec 2023, Vol. 90 No. 2

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Western Tanager, Nov-Dec 2023, Vol. 90 No. 2

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Observing the Coastal California Gnatcatcher, by Daniel Horowitz

LAAS Expresses Concerns with Ballona Wetlands Project – With Letter to the Wildlife Conservation Board, by Margot Griswold

The 124th Christmas Bird Count

Arctic-Breeding Greater Yellowlegs Tracked to Los Angeles River, by Rozy Bathrick

Birds of the Season - December 2023, by Jon Fisher

2024 Call For Applications, Ralph W. Schreiber Ornithology Research Award

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Western Tanager, September-October 2023, Vol. 90 No.1

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Photo by Robbie Lisa Freeman

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Inside This Issue

A Splendidly Spooky Avian Encounter by Robbie Lisa Freeman

Birds Of The Season—October 2023 by Jon Fisher

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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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Western Tanager, January–February 2023, Vol. 89 No. 3

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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

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Western Tanager—Nov-Dec 2022

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This is the November–December 2022, Western Tanager, Vol. 89 No. 2.

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Lead Article: Native-plant landscaping in residential yards provides habitat and refuge for birds in Southern California

CONSERVATION CONVERSATION, Goose in the Lights

Christmas Bird Count 2022

Birds of the Season–October 2022

Monthly Program Presentations

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