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

Birds in a Changing World

Birds in a Changing World

Monte Neate-Clegg, PhD

Tue, May 13, 2025

Nightjars

Nightjars

Lance Benner

Tue, Jun 10, 2025

Coloration in Northern Flickers

Coloration in Northern Flickers

Stepfhanie M. Aguillon, PhD

Tue, Jul 08, 2025

Recent webinars

Rethinking Field Guides

Rethinking Field Guides

Tom Stephenson

Tue, Apr 22, 2025

Sound recording — update

Sound recording — update

Lance Benner

Tue, Mar 25, 2025

Mastering Contopus Flycatchers

Mastering Contopus Flycatchers

Andrew Birch

Tue, Mar 11, 2025

Evolutionary History of Passerines

Evolutionary History of Passerines

Diego Blanco

Tue, Feb 11, 2025

Dabbling Duck ID

Dabbling Duck ID

Dessi Sieburth

Tue, Jan 28, 2025

Past webinars

Bird Identification Webinars

"Rethinking Field Guides": Tom Stephenson, Apr 22, 2025
"Mastering Contopus Flycatchers": Andrew Birch, Mar 11, 2025
"Dabbling Duck ID": Dessi Sieburth, Jan 28, 2025
"Parrots of Southern California": Brenda Ramirez, Sep 17, 2024
"Brown ducks in summer": Doug Robinson, PhD, Aug 20, 2024
"Ten Tremendous Terns": Calvin Bonn, Jul 30, 2024
"Mountain Bird Sounds, pt 2": Lance Benner, Ph.D., Jun 18, 2024
"Flycatcher ID": Cin-Ty Lee and Andrew Birch, May 21, 2024
"Loon ID": Dessi Sieburth, Apr 09, 2024
"Wintering Artemisiospiza Sparrows": Chris McCreedy, Jan 30, 2024
"Identification of Swifts": Jon Feenstra, PhD, Jan 16, 2024
"Decrypting Dark Raptors": Ted Keyel, Dec 12, 2023
"Getting to Know Your Gulls": Amar Ayyash, Nov 28, 2023
"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

"Evolutionary History of Passerines": Diego Blanco, Feb 11, 2025
"White-eyes in North America": Devon DeRaad, PhD, Nov 12, 2024
"Happenings at NHMLAC": Allison Shultz, Ph.D., Oct 15, 2024
"Soaring into the Future": Myra Finkelstein, Ph.D., Oct 08, 2024
"Evolutionary History of Birds": Diego Blanco, Aug 13, 2024
"Tracking Flammulated Owls": Brian Linkhart, PhD, Oct 24, 2023
"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

"Sound recording — update": Lance Benner, Mar 25, 2025
"Veracruz River of Raptors": Ted Keyel, Dec 10, 2024
"Trends in SoCal Avifauna": Kimball L. Garrett, Mar 12, 2024
"Learning Bird Songs": Tom Stephenson, Feb 20, 2024
"A California Big Year": Van Pierszalowski, Feb 13, 2024
"Attracting Hummingbirds": David Bell, PhD., Oct 17, 2023
"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