The Los Angeles County Bird List: The Bird Species of "America's Birdiest County"

Kimball L. Garrett

Tue, Nov 11, 2025 7:00 PM

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.

The livestream can be found at our YouTube channel.