Backyard Birding Tips

Check out some of our favorite tips and tricks for birding in your own backyard!

Kayleigh Medeiros, left, Education Manager at Trinity River Audubon, assists high school students with identifying bird species while birding at Lost Maples State Natural Area during a week-long outdoor Conservation Trek hosted by Trinity River Audubon Center Wednesday, August 7, 2019 in Vanderpool, Texas. Photo: Luke Franke/Audubon

Backyard Birding Tips: Maintaining your Hummingbird Feeders
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Backyard Birding Tips: Maintaining your Hummingbird Feeders

Keep your hummers healthy and happy!

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Backyard Birding Tips: Preventing Window Collisions
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Backyard Birding Tips: Preventing Window Collisions

A quick way to keep your home migration-friendly!

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Backyard Birding Tips: Cleaning your Bird Feeders
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Backyard Birding Tips: Cleaning your Bird Feeders

An easy way to increase the bird activity in your backyard!

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Backyard Birding Tips: How to ID a House Finch
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Backyard Birding Tips: How to ID a House Finch

We promise you've heard these noisy birds, here's how to be sure!

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Backyard Birding Tips: How to ID a Lesser Goldfinch
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Backyard Birding Tips: How to ID a Lesser Goldfinch

Living proof that even birds know the old adage, "The more, the merrier"!

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Backyard Birding Tips: How to ID a California Scrub Jay
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Backyard Birding Tips: How to ID a California Scrub Jay

Meet the corvid family's bright blue cousin!

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Backyard Birding Tips: How to ID a Red Tailed Hawk
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Backyard Birding Tips: How to ID a Red Tailed Hawk

Watch this video and learn how you can properly identify a Red-tailed hawk on your next hike, road trip, or walk.

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Backyard Birding Tips: How to be a Bird Ally along the LA River!
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Backyard Birding Tips: Being a Bird Ally along the LA River

Check out some tips for keeping the LA River bird-friendly on your next walk!

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Backyard Birding Tips: How to ID Common LA River Birds
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Backyard Birding Tips: How to ID Common LA River Birds

Check out this video for some of our tips for identifying common water birds along the LA River!

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Consejos para ver aves: Cómo usar binoculares
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Consejos para ver aves: Como usar binoculares

Usando binoculares ... ¡claro como el cristal!

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Backyard Birding Tips: How to Identify American Crows & Common Ravens
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Backyard Birding Tips: How to Identify American Crows & Common Ravens

Both birds are large, black, loud, extremely smart, and they have similar body shapes. Both birds can be found in California year-round. So, how on earth do you tell these two birds apart??

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Backyard Birding Tips: How to Identify the Northern Mockingbird
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Backyard Birding Tips: How to Identify the Northern Mockingbird

For our first Backyard Birding Tips video of the year, we’re taking a look at one of our loudest backyard birds – the Northern Mockingbird!

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Backyard Birding Tips: How to Identify Common Fall Migrants
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Backyard Birding Tips: How to Identify Common Fall Migrants

Learn how to identify some common migrants that you may be able to spot in the Los Angeles area throughout the winter months!

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Backyard Birding Tips: How to Identify Common Summer Residents
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Backyard Birding Tips: How to Identify Common Summer Residents

Let’s take a quick look at some of the summer residents that you might be able to spot around the LA area now and throughout the summer months! Featuring the Lazuli Bunting, Ash-throated Flycatcher, Black-headed Grosbeak, and Hooded Oriole.

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Pasadena Audubon Presents "Birding Guide to the Greater Pasadena Area"
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Pasadena Audubon's "Birding Guide to the Greater Pasadena Area"

With a wide range of habitats and more than 300 species of birds, the Pasadena region has long been known as a premiere birder's destination. Now, with the Guide, birdwatchers of all skills -- from beginner to expert -- can discover all the birding delights the region has to offer.

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