Hi All,
This Wednesday (May 17th, 2017) we will have Justyn Stahl, project manager for the Institute for Wildlife Studies’ San Clemente Loggerhead Shrike Monitoring and Release Project, giving a talk entitled Saving the Butcher – Recovery of the San Clemente Loggerhead Shrike. The San Clemente Loggerhead Shrike is one of the world’s rarest songbirds. Justyn's talk will discuss shrike ecology, the history of recovery efforts, provide an update on this year’s population size and feature photos of shrikes and other birds of note from San Clemente Island.
PAS meet at Eaton Canyon Nature Center 1750 N Altadena Dr, Pasadena. Social time kicks off at 7:00pm and the program runs from 7:30pm until 9:00pm.
In other news I am excited to announce that PAS will run their first eight hour dedicated pelagic this fall. We will depart from Dana Point and spend most our time at sea in Los Angeles County waters. The trip will run September 16th, 2017 between 7:00am and 3:00pm and will cost $65.00.
PAS will be providing expert tour leaders for this trip to help pick out interesting species. Birds that might be encountered include a variety of shearwaters, jaegers, phalaropes, alcids, gulls and terns. One of our main targets will be the rafts of storm-petrels that gather off shore in September which may include both Black and Least. Uncommon and rare species discovered on similarly timed trips have included: Manx and Flesh-footed Shearwater, Arctic Tern, Red-footed and Blue-footed Booby and Craveri’s Murrelet among others.
Early bird bookings will be available to purchase at our meeting on Wednesday. After that tickets will be available to purchase online through the PAS website. I will post a link to this and the LA County list once that link has gone live.
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