Date: 3/6/26 1:01 pm From: rebecca.fenning via groups.io <rebecca.fenning...> Subject: [LACoBirds] LA Birders Webinar 3/10: How humans have shaped Anna's hummingbirds
Dear Birders,
You are invited to the next LA Birders webinar and to this spring’s
offering of Birding 101, which only has 2 spots remaining. More information
about both below:
As humans continue to modify the environment, it’s important we
characterize how these changes affect and interact with organisms in
nature. Using a combination of Christmas Bird Count data, newspaper
articles, museum collections, and thermal imaging, we discovered
fascinating relationships between the Anna’s Hummingbird (Calypte anna) and
human-induced environmental change over the past 150 years in California,
including range expansions and bill shape changes in association with
temperature and nectar feeders.
This webinar will be livestreamed on our YouTube channel
<https://tinyurl.com/2y6efp3f> and will also be recorded for later viewing.
Please use the YouTube link above (alternatively:
https://tinyurl.com/2y6efp3f) which will take you directly to LAB’s main
page, where the live webinar should be visible once it begins at 7pm.
Are you interested in learning about bird identification in a safe and fun
environment? Birding 101 is the beginning birding class that’s been so
successful for over a decade. Birding 101 was designed to give birders the
structure, knowledge, and tools to get more out of Birding! Birding 101 is
also perfect for partners or children of birders.
This course is made up of three online classroom sessions in the evenings
(6:30pm-9pm) on March 24, March 31, and April 7, 2026. There will also be
two in-person field trips in the mornings of March 29 (a Sunday) and April
4 (a Saturday), 2026 at Los-Angeles-area locations to be determined. You
will learn the tools, resources, and skills needed for birding in an
entertaining format. Participants are expected to attend all three classes
and both field trips.
Registration is $100 for non-LAB members (this includes LAB membership for
1 year), and $80 for LAB members. Registration is only $10 for LAB-S
student members ages 12-17. For LAB-S students, a parent/guardian must sign
up and take the course as well; please sign up the student and
parent/guardian separately. More information is on our website.
<https://www.labirders.org/event_signups/birding101mar2026dlq.html>
Become a LAB Member! Though our webinars will always remain free and
available to all, members of Los Angeles Birders have access to live
webinars via Zoom, invitations to special LAB-only field trips, priority
sign-up on LAB field trips & events, and discounts on paid LAB programs. To
learn more about membership, please see our website
<https://www.labirders.org/>!
Looking for a past webinar? Don’t forget that a list of all of our
previously recorded webinars <https://www.labirders.org/webinars.html> is
available on our website – which might come in handy if you want to study
up before a field trip, or if you're looking to build your birding skills
from home! Just scroll all the way down, past our upcoming and most recent
online programs and you'll find a list of webinars sorted by category.
These recordings are all viewable via our YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHbAhQTFVaeowMCl-sD2e0g> page.
Upcoming Events
3/10 Supplemental Feeding as a Driver of Population Expansion and
Morphological Change in Anna's Hummingbirds with Faye Romero (webinar)
3/21 Bonelli Park with Keith Condon (field trip - sign up coming soon!)
3/24 Birding 101 begins!
4/1 First Sundays at the Huntington (member only field trip)
4/14 Vireo Identification with Kimball Garrett and Jon Dunn (webinar)
