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Jon Fisher
Rare Bird Alert - June 29, 2025

Inca Dove | Franklin’s Gull | Brown Pelican | California Condor | SWALLOW-TAILED KITE | Burrowing Owl | Purple Martin | American Dipper | Grace’s Warbler | Rose-breasted Grosbeak | Indigo Bunting

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Jon Fisher
Rare Bird Alert - June 21, 2025

Hooded Merganser | Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Black Swift | SWALLOW-TAILED KITE | Burrowing Owl | Purple Martin | American Dipper | Orchard Oriole | Baltimore Oriole | Black-and-white Warbler | Tennessee Warbler | Cape May Warbler | Northern Parula | Grace’s Warbler | Indigo Bunting

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Jon Fisher
Rare Bird Alert - June 14, 2025

Hooded Merganser | Pacific Loon | Least Tern | Brown Pelican | California Condor | SWALLOW-TAILED KITE | Broad-winged Hawk | Whimbrel | Scissor-tailed Flycatcher | Verdin | American Redstart | Chestnut-sided Warbler

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Jon Fisher
Rare Bird Alert - June 7, 2025

Red-breasted Merganser | Inca Dove | Black Swift | Pacific Loon | California Condor | SWALLOW-TAILED KITE | American Dipper

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Jon Fisher
Rare Bird Alert - May 31, 2025

Common Tern | Pacific Loon | Common Loon | Western Cattle Egret | Plumbeous Vireo | Northern Waterthrush | Summer Tanager | Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Vol. 89 No. 6 July-August

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

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Crested Caracara, photo courtesy of Randy Freeman.

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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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