Birds around Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California, United States

Every measure here is worked out per 5 degree square, so this covers the wider area around Los Angeles (30° to 35° latitude, -120° to -115° longitude, about 550 km across), not the city alone. Counts are shares of all birds records in the same weeks, so busier stations do not inflate them (methods).

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Arrived in the last four weeks

Bell's Sparrow around 12 October
Ruby-crowned Kinglet around 12 October
Buff-bellied Pipit around 5 October
Cedar Waxwing around 5 October
Hermit Thrush around 5 October
Yellow-rumped Warbler around 5 October

Expected in the next six weeks

No arrivals expected here in the next six weeks, going by last year.

Dates are last year's first regular records after at least six weeks away, with each species' own uncertainty on its page. Each species page can email you when it turns up.

Most recorded, last eight weeks

Species	Records	Per 1,000
House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus	3,113,098	294.2
Black Phoebe Sayornis nigricans	1,036,087	97.9
Allen's Hummingbird Selasphorus sasin	885,223	83.7
Anna's Hummingbird Calypte anna	593,523	56.1
California Towhee Melozone crissalis	589,710	55.7
Lesser Goldfinch Spinus psaltria	452,195	42.7
White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys	433,009	40.9
House Sparrow Passer domesticus	368,569	34.8
American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos	336,402	31.8
Bushtit Psaltriparus minimus	256,979	24.3
California Scrub-Jay Aphelocoma californica	236,401	22.3
Rufous Hummingbird Selasphorus rufus	229,376	21.7
Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos	160,603	15.2
Costa's Hummingbird Calypte costae	123,378	11.7
Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus	117,091	11.1

How well this area is covered

Watched in 12 of the last 12 weeks for birds (enough records to count; unwatched weeks say nothing about absence). Active stations here in the last 30 days: 190 BirdWeather. Add a station to fill the gap.