This website is for a small mist-netting, bird-banding station in the eastern San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles County. This station has numerous net sites, but only six or eight nets are used at any one time. If you are interested in observing or volunteering, email lavernebirds@gmail.com to learn where and when we'll be banding next. In most months, we band on one Saturday and once on a weekday. For recent daily results, see https://ebird.org/hotspot/L474328

Banding started here in summer 2017. As of August 31, 2025, the totals are:

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California Quail                                      1

Mourning Dove                                     17

Common Poorwill                                   1

Black-chinned Hummingbird               36

Anna's Hummingbird                          619

Costa's Hummingbird                            13

Calliope Hummingbird                           2

Rufous Hummingbird                           26

Allen's Hummingbird                         502

Unidentified hummingbird                   25

Sharp-shinned Hawk                              2

Cooper's Hawk                                       5

Long-eared Owl                                     1

Acorn Woodpecker                                4

Nuttall's Woodpecker                         107

Northern (R.-S.) Flicker                        3

Ash-throated Flycatcher                      94

Western Wood-Pewee                           7

Willow Flycatcher                                10

Hammond's Flycatcher                          5

Western Flycatcher                              54

Black Phoebe                                        4

Hutton's Vireo                                     53

Cassin's Vireo                                       1

Warbling Vireo                                   14

California Scrub-Jay                           60

Oak Titmouse                                   522

N. Rough-winged Swallow                  4

Cliff Swallow                                       1

Bushtit                                             679

Wrentit                                            405

Ruby-crowned Kinglet                   198

Phainopepla                                     66

Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher                    39

Cactus Wren                                     12

Bewick's Wren                                749

Northern House Wren                       42

California Thrasher                        124

Northern Mockingbird                    33

Western Bluebird                               7

Swainson's Thrush                           20

Hermit Thrush                               183

American Robin                               6

Pin-tailed Whydah                          2

Scaly-breasted Munia                    57

House Finch                                335

Purple Finch                                  67

Lesser Goldfinch                         389

Lawrence's Goldfinch                      1

American Goldfinch                        1

Black-throated Sparrow                  1

Chipping Sparrow                           1

Brewer's Sparrow                            1

Fox Sparrow                                    6

Oregon Junco                                35

White-crowned Sparrow             476

Golden-crowned Sparrow             26

Vesper Sparrow                               1

Song Sparrow                              105

Lincoln's Sparrow                        68

California Towhee                     326

Rufous-crowned Sparrow            12

Spotted Towhee                         451

Yellow-breasted Chat                    5

Hooded Oriole                            53

Bullock's Oriole                            3

Brown-headed Cowbird                1

Orange-crowned Warbler          227

Nashville Warbler                         6

MacGillivray's Warbler                 6

Common Yellowthroat                  5

Yellow Warbler                            23

Audubon's Warbler                    235

Myrtle Warbler                              1

Black-throated Gray Warbler        9

Townsend's Warbler                      4

Wilson's Warbler                         24

Western Tanager                          24

Black-Headed Grosbeak             115

Lazuli Bunting                             10

total birds                                7871

number of species                         78

For a year-by-year comparison of results from 2017 to 2024, see below. 

All banding, marking, and sampling is being conducted under a federally authorized Bird Banding Permit issued by the U.S. Geological Survey’s Bird Banding Laboratory. 

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