Date: 11/2/25 11:29 am From: rebecca.fenning via groups.io <rebecca.fenning...> Subject: [LACoBirds] LA Birders Webinar: CA's First Statewide Bird Atlas, 11/4
Dear Birders,
You are invited to the next LA Birders webinar:
Building California's First Statewide Breeding Bird Atlas
With Van Pierszalowski, Executive Director, California Bird Atlas (CBA)
Join Van and others from the team at California Bird Atlas to learn more
about the upcoming launch of California’s first statewide Breeding Bird
Atlas - an initiative already completed in 44 other states. While
California has traditionally conducted Atlases at the county level, only 15
of the state’s 58 counties have published them, representing less than 17%
of the state’s land area. Furthermore, 14 of these 15 counties are either
coastal or adjacent to the San Francisco Bay Estuary - underscoring an
extreme bias towards densely populated regions. Today, powerful data
platforms like eBird and a statewide surge in birdwatching participation
have finally made a comprehensive Atlas for all of California possible.
This webinar will be livestreamed on our YouTube channel
<https://tinyurl.com/2y6efp3f> and will also be recorded for later viewing.
Please use the YouTube link above (alternatively:
https://tinyurl.com/2y6efp3f) which will take you directly to LAB’s main
page, where the live webinar should be visible once it begins at 7pm.
Become a LAB Member! Though our webinars will always remain free and
available to all, members of Los Angeles Birders have access to live
webinars via Zoom, invitations to special LAB-only field trips, priority
sign-up on LAB field trips & events, and discounts on paid LAB programs. To
learn more about membership, please see our website
<https://www.labirders.org/>!
Looking for a past webinar? Don’t forget that a list of all of our
previously recorded webinars <https://www.labirders.org/webinars.html> is
available on our website – which might come in handy if you want to study
up before a field trip, or if you're looking to build your birding skills
from home! Just scroll all the way down, past our upcoming and most recent
online programs and you'll find a list of webinars sorted by category.
These recordings are all viewable via our YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHbAhQTFVaeowMCl-sD2e0g> page.
Upcoming Programs
11/4 California Bird Atlas Project with Van Pierzalowski (webinar)
11/11 The Los Angeles County Bird List with Kimball Garrett (webinar)
12/7 First Sundays at the Huntington with Katy Mann (member-only field trip)
12/16 Long-distance seasonal migration, genetic diversity, and gene flow
with Teresa Pegan (webinar)
