Webinars

Join us for interesting talks about local birds, identification, status and distribution, and other topics of interest to area birders.

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You can participate in webinars in one of two ways:

Webinars are on Zoom. To participate..., Join LAB to get on our email list. When you receive an email announcement for a webinar, a link in the email will allow you to sign up for the webinar ahead of time; when you do so, you will be sent a second email with a Zoom link for that webinar. On Zoom you have access to chat, Q&A, and interactive polls if any, all of which can be seen by the webinar presenters in real time. Space on Zoom is limited (by Zoom), so sign up early.
Webinars are simultaneously livestreamed ...on our YouTube channel, which anyone can enter. Note that the chat on YouTube is different than the chat on Zoom, and that the livestream is delayed by about 30 seconds relative to Zoom.

Upcoming webinars

Recent webinars

Tricolored Blackbirds

Tricolored Blackbirds

Robert Meese, PhD

Tue, Sep 12, 2023

Frontiers of Bird Science

Frontiers of Bird Science

Doug Robinson, Ph.D.

Tue, Aug 08, 2023

Spotted Owl Conservation

Spotted Owl Conservation

Rocky Gutiérrez, PhD

Tue, Jul 25, 2023

Different Forms of Dark-eyed Junco

Different Forms of Dark-eyed Junco

Marquette Mutchler

Tue, Jun 20, 2023

Monitoring Bird Populations in the Santa Monica Mountains

Monitoring Bird Populations in the Santa Monica Mountains

Katy Delaney, PhD

Tue, Jun 13, 2023

Past webinars

Bird Identification Webinars

"Different Forms of Dark-eyed Junco": Marquette Mutchler, Jun 20, 2023
"Raptors in Flight": Ted Keyel, May 09, 2023
"Ainley's Storm-Petrel": Dessi Sieburth, Apr 11, 2023
"Alcids in Southern California": David Pereksta, Mar 21, 2023
"ID Guide Update": Peter Pyle, Feb 21, 2023
"Jaeger Meisters (pt 2)": Julian R. Hough, Jan 24, 2023
"Jaeger Meisters (pt 1)": Julian R. Hough, Jan 10, 2023
"Preposterous Palearctic Passerines": Andy Birch, Nov 22, 2022
"Red Crossbills": Lance Benner, Nov 15, 2022
"Marine Mammals for Birders": Bernardo Alps, Oct 18, 2022
"Nocturnal Flight Calls": Marky Mutchler, Sep 20, 2022
"Cormorant ID": David Bell, PhD, Aug 16, 2022
"Summer and Fall Sparrows": Jon Dunn & Kimball Garrett, Jul 19, 2022
"Telling Swallows from Swallows": Adam Searcy, Apr 19, 2022
"Seabirds pt. 2: Other Pelagic Birds": Jon Feenstra, PhD, Jan 18, 2022
"Big Gulls in CA": Alvaro Jaramillo, Nov 30, 2021
"Urban Tropicana": Larry W. Allen, Nov 16, 2021
"ID of Birds in Flight": Dr. Ryan Terrill, Oct 26, 2021
"Dark-eyed Juncos": Jon Dunn and Kimball Garrett, Oct 12, 2021
"Warbler ID Made Easy(er)": Tom Stephenson, Sep 21, 2021
"Raptors in Flight": Dessi Sieburth, Aug 17, 2021
"Seabirds pt. 1: Tubenoses": Jon Feenstra, PhD, Aug 10, 2021
"Tricky Tringas": Andy Birch, Jul 20, 2021
"Streaky Little Things": Jon Feenstra, PhD, Jun 15, 2021
"Confusing Bird Sounds": Dr. Lance Benner, May 18, 2021
"Exotic Dilemmas and GDPs": Kimball Garrett, Apr 20, 2021
"Nocturnal Flight Calls": Andy Birch, Apr 13, 2021
"Sapsucker Identification": Mark Scheel, Mar 16, 2021
"Empid Identification": Cin-Ty Lee, PhD, Mar 09, 2021
"Kingbird Identification": Jon Feenstra, Ph.D., Feb 16, 2021
"Female Hummingbirds of LA": Dessi Sieburth, Jan 19, 2021
"Bird ID Quiz": Mark Scheel et al., Dec 08, 2020
"ID of "Sage" Sparrows": Kimball Garrett and Andy Birch, Nov 17, 2020
"Seven Deadly Stints (pt 2)": Jon Dunn, Oct 20, 2020
"Seven Deadly Stints (pt 1)": Jon Dunn, Oct 13, 2020
"Dowitchers": Jon Dunn, Aug 11, 2020
"White-crowned Sparrows": Jon Dunn and Kimball Garrett, Jul 14, 2020

Science Webinars

"Tricolored Blackbirds": Robert Meese, PhD, Sep 12, 2023
"Frontiers of Bird Science": Doug Robinson, Ph.D., Aug 08, 2023
"Spotted Owl Conservation": Rocky Gutiérrez, PhD, Jul 25, 2023
"Monitoring Bird Populations in the Santa Monica Mountains": Katy Delaney, PhD, Jun 13, 2023
"Swainson's Hawks in California": Brett Furnas, PhD, May 16, 2023
"Plastic Pollution and Birds": Myra Finkelstein, Ph.D., Apr 18, 2023
"What Makes You Move?": Young Ha Suh, PhD, Mar 14, 2023
"MAPS and MoSI": Steve Albert, Feb 14, 2023
"Smoke and Birds": Olivia Sanderfoot, PhD, Jan 17, 2023
"Great Gray Owls": Rodney Siegel, PhD, Dec 13, 2022
"Urban Tolerance of Nesting Birds": Dan Cooper, PhD, Sep 13, 2022
"Migratory Birds and Climate Change": Monte Neate-Clegg, PhD, Aug 09, 2022
"Icterids": Alvaro Jaramillo, Jul 12, 2022
"Burrowing Owls": Sarah McCullogh Hennessy, Jun 14, 2022
"Evolution of Colors in Birds": Whitney Tsai Nakashima, May 10, 2022
"Migration, Conservation, and Genoscapes": Christen Bossu, PhD, Apr 12, 2022
"Radar Ornithology": Andrew Farnsworth, PhD, Mar 08, 2022
"Birds of the World": Brooke Keeney, PhD and Shawn Billerman, PhD, Feb 08, 2022
"San Diego Bird Atlas": Phil Unitt, Jan 11, 2022
"Lead poisoning in birds": Myra Finkelstein, Ph.D., Nov 09, 2021
"Mexican Bird Resurvey Project": John McCormack, PhD, Sep 14, 2021
"Decline of Gray Vireo in SoCal": Philip Unitt, Jul 13, 2021
"Feather Color in Tanagers": Allison Shultz, Ph.D., Jun 08, 2021
"Bird Specimens as Genomic Resources": John McCormack, PhD, May 11, 2021
"Migration: Bear Divide Update": Dr. Ryan Terrill, May 04, 2021
"Infections & Avian Evolution": Allison Shultz, Ph.D., Feb 09, 2021
"Evolution of Molt": Ryan Terrill, PhD, Jan 12, 2021
"Fire and CA's Birds": Morgan Tingley, PhD, Sep 29, 2020
"Vermilion Flycatchers": Kimball Garrett, Jun 09, 2020

Other Webinars

"Birds Can't Vote, But You Can": No LAB webinar, Nov 08, 2022
"Current Taxonomy Issues": Jon L. Dunn and Kimball L. Garrett, Oct 11, 2022
"Using eBird and BirdsEye data": David Bell, PhD, Jun 21, 2022
"CA Native Plants for Birds": Scot Pipkin, May 17, 2022
"eBird Best Practices for LA": Justyn Stahl, Mar 15, 2022
"eBird - and what it means in L.A.": John Franklin Garrett, Feb 15, 2022
"iNaturalist for Birders": Rebecca Marschall and Andy Kleinhesselink, PhD, Dec 14, 2021
"Lumping & Splitting: Taxonomy & AOS": Jon Dunn and Kimball Garrett, Nov 10, 2020
"Sound recording, Part 2": Lance Benner, Sep 15, 2020
"Sound recording, Part 1": Lance Benner, Sep 08, 2020