The Los Angeles Birders website is hosting the “official” list of bird
species recorded in Los Angeles County. Standing at 550 species (535
native) as of October 2025, the species total is the highest of any county
in the United States. Kimball Garrett, who has been assembling and refining
this list over the years, will talk about how and why such avifaunal lists
are important, what the annotations mean, some of the surprising species on
the list, and the species that might be the next to gain a place on the
list.
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
11/11 The Los Angeles County Bird List with Kimball Garrett (webinar)
11/16 Huntington Central Park with Duncan McClure (field trip - sign up
coming soon!)
11/30 San Jacinto Wildlife Area with Tony Metcalf (field trip - sign up
coming soon!)
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)
