Lazuli Bunting

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Acorn Woodpecker stash

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Red-tailed hawk mama feeding 3 chicks

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Lean, long Sharp-shinned Hawk perch-hunts near the Greek Theatre.
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Black-headed Grosbeak

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Wee Santa Cruz Island Fox harvests thistle.
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Western Tanager

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The American Acclimatization Society was founded in 1871 to introduce European animals and plants into North America.

In 1890, they released one hundred European Starlings into New York’s Central Park, part of an insane plan to bring the “Birds of Shakespeare” to the New World.

Their scheme went horribly awry. Within a decade, tens of millions of invasive starlings aggressively competed for nesting cavities, causing the collapse of some native bird populations.

Nevertheless, Starlings are gorgeously iridescent, like this one, seen shimmering in Bette Davis Picnic Area.
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Allen's hummingbird

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2700 feet high in the San Gabriels, in a gravel lot near the intersection of two mountain roads you will find a couple old picnic tables: this is Bear Divide Vista Picnic Area. Nine years ago, humans discovered that as many as 20,000 birds a day fly through this notch during spring migration. This Western Tanager rests for a few seconds before continuing his journey from Central America to Northern Canada.
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Great Horned owl mama & two owlets. Can you spot both owlets?

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Spotted Towhee fills the forest with song. #naturephotography #nature #photo #photography #birds #birders #birdwatchers #birding #California #birdwatching #GriffithPark #DailyBird #BirdsOfPixelfed #BirdsOfMastodon #SpottedTowhee #towhee
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Red-tailed hawk parents & chicks in nest

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Northern House Wren

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Black-headed grosbeak

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Red-tailed hawk with chicks. Only 2 can be seen here, but there are 3 in this nest.

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Cedar Waxwing

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Allen’s hummingbird defies gravity to sip nectar. #naturephotography #nature #photo #photography #birds #birders #birdwatchers #birding #California #birdwatching #GriffithPark #DailyBird #BirdsOfPixelfed #BirdsOfMastodon #LARiver #cute #naturephotos #LAWildlife #hummingbird

Phainopepla

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