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It’s time for everyone’s favorite group of birds: Birds of prey! In this week’s Carpinteria Birdwatchers meeting we’ll cover hawks, eagles, falcons, kites… you name it. The meeting will take place online via Zoom and YouTube livestream on Thursday, September 24, 2020, at 4 p.m. Pacific. Hope to see you there!

Zoom meeting info:

Topic: Birds of Prey: Carpinteria Birdwatchers meeting for Sep. 24, 2020
Time: Sep 24, 2020 04:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81103600337?pwd=WUJ2L3J1VDl6bVYxdUdqcHlreTJOQT09

Meeting ID: 811 0360 0337
Passcode: 519410

YouTube livestream:

Links mentioned during the meeting:

• Jenna McCullough’s article on why a mass die-off of migratory birds may have happened recently in New Mexico
• Joan Lentz’s blog, with information on her new book, Story of a Santa Barbara Birder
• A paper on misidentification of Cooper’s and Sharp-shinned Hawks
• A video about the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory
• A study on radio-tracking of 5 Broad-winged Hawks on the west coast
• GGRO daily hawk counts from the Marin Headlands
• Graphs of raptor counts per hour, including Broad-winged Hawks, at the Marin Headlands

You can also view the slides from the meeting.

For our next meeting we’ll continue our discussion of local gulls with “Part 2: The Slightly More-Exotic 6”. The meeting will take place online via Zoom and YouTube livestream on Thursday, September 10, 2020, at 4 p.m. Pacific. Hope to see you there!

— John Callender

Zoom meeting info:

Topic: Gulls part 2: Carpinteria Birdwatchers meeting for September 10, 2020
Time: Sep 10, 2020 04:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85116032273?pwd=N0JFem1HdXpMajRwTUNPbnVMRFU2UT09

Meeting ID: 851 1603 2273
Passcode: 749096

YouTube livestream:

Links mentioned during the meeting:

• John Muir Laws’ videos on drawing and painting birds.
• Linus Blomqvist’s discussion of The Big Sit on the sbcobirding email list
•  Website for this year’s Big Sit
•  Team “Pishing in the Wind” 2019 Big Sit report (Los Osos, CA). This team finished in 2nd place with 101 species last year, beaten by a single species by “The Lost Tinamous” in Guatemala.
• Santa Barbara Audubon’s page on the Santa Barbara Breeding Bird Study.

You also can view the slides from the meeting.

For our next meeting we’ll go back to a topic that can always use more study: Gulls! Join us Thursday, August 27, 2020, at 4 p.m. for part 1 of this two-part topic, as we talk about basic gull facts and the “Big 4” locally common species. We’ll cover part 2, with the “Slightly More Exotic 5″, in the following meeting.

Zoom meeting info:

Topic: Gulls part 1: Carpinteria Birdwatchers meeting for 2020-08-27
Time: Aug 27, 2020 04:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85087797181?pwd=eC9sR1RtOVRQYmVPV3QzY1gyR2FFZz09

Meeting ID: 850 8779 7181
Passcode: 004784

YouTube livestream:

Links mentioned during the meeting:

• J. J. Audubon and the Bird of Washington Fraud with Matthew Halley – ABA podcast with Nate Swick and Matthew Halley
• The fable of Audubon the scientist – blog post by Matthew Halley
• Audubon’s Bird of Washington: unravelling the fraud that launched The birds of America – Journal article by Matthew Halley

You can also view the slides from the meeting.

By request, the next Carpinteria Birdwatchers meeting will cover thrashers and blackbirds. Join us on August 13, 2020, at 4 p.m. to learn more!

YouTube livestream:

Link mentioned during the meeting:

• An article on the renaming of the Thick-billed Longspur
• An article on a recent study showing a link between neonicotinoid pesticides and grassland bird declines
• A Los Padres Forest Watch page on how to comment on the Reyes Ridge logging proposal: The extended deadline for submitting a public comment is tomorrow (8/14).
• Andrea asked about Lanayah, my son’s post-rock/doomgaze band whose shirt I was wearing. You can view the video for their song “Three Javelins”; it isn’t the most representative of their music, but it DOES have birds. :-) If you’d like to hear more Lanayah their latest album is on their Bandcamp page.

The slides from the meeting are viewable here.

For the July 30, 2020, online meeting of Carpinteria Birdwatchers we’ll continue our review of Santa Barbara County shorebirds, this time covering the larger species. See you Thursday at 4 p.m.

YouTube livestream: