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Tree Swallow, juvenile, Santa Rosa, California. Photo: Jinchao Lyu/Audubon Photography Awards
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What's Up at Debs
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Spring is a beautiful time to get outside and enjoy the migratory birds visiting our neighborhoods and natural spaces.
As we complete habitat restoration projects and field surveys this season, we’ve spotted migrating Wilson’s Warblers, Townsend’s Warblers, Hutton’s Vireos, and many of our beloved resident birds along the way. We are especially grateful for the volunteers who have spent countless hours weeding, mulching, and caring for restoration sites to give California native plants the opportunity to thrive. This spring has also brought many opportunities to support local wildlife, from answering community calls about injured and orphaned birds to partnering with Kelsey Reckling and Tania Romero, PhD students from the Tingley Lab, who are studying how light pollution in Los Angeles affects White-crowned Sparrows.
Thanks to this collaboration, one sparrow is already on the move, and you can follow its migration journey through our MOTUS tower tracking system. As always, there is so much happening at the center and in the field. Los Nogales Nursery is now open Thursday through Sunday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., a perfect time to explore beautiful native blooms and gather inspiration for your yard or balcony garden. We’ve also continued weekly bird monitoring at Rio de Los Angeles State Park, where we are keeping track of the beautiful and endangered Least Bell's Vireo.
In addition, we are launching a new partnership with Community Nature Connection to better understand wildfire and fire resilience needs in Northeast Los Angeles. We invite you to support this effort by filling out our community survey and helping shape future fire resilience work in the region.
Thank you for all your support and help.
Audubon Center at Debs Park Team
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Check Out the Wildfire Survey
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Least Bell's Vireo singing at Rio de Los Angeles State Park. Photo: Alecia Smith/Audubon California.
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Building Better Habitat, One Songbird at a Time
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Early this spring, a sweet song rang out like a question, filling the air at the Audubon Center at Debs Park early this spring: “Cheedle-cheedle-chee? Cheedle-cheedle-chew!” This fleeting moment of respite came from the migratory Least Bell’s Vireo, a small endangered songbird, likely returning from its southern wintering grounds in Mexico and stopping at the center for fuel. This bird carries an important comeback story that continues unfolding right here in northeast Los Angeles.
Just a few miles around the corner from our center, our team has been hard at work for years at Rio de Los Angeles State Park, a 40-acre urban park in the Cypress Park neighborhood of northeast Los Angeles. With sweeping views of the San Gabriel Mountains and the surrounding urban landscape, the park is a beloved community space with multi-use sports fields, walking and biking paths, playgrounds, picnic areas, and open grassy areas used by local families, schools, and community groups. This park isn’t just a great place for people to walk, relax, and connect with nature; it’s also becoming an increasingly important home for riparian birds. Native landscaping and habitat areas support birds, pollinators, and other urban wildlife, helping reconnect people with the ecology of the Los Angeles River watershed. In recent years, we’ve been focused on one big goal: building denser, more complex habitat. Continue reading...
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Volunteers gather to make wreaths during Volunteer Appreciation Night.
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A Word of Thanks
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April 19th to April 25th was National Volunteer Week and we wanted to take this time to express our appreciation and gratitude for our wonderful community of volunteers and interns. The work we do here would not be possible without your support and we are incredibly thankful for all that you do!
If you are interested in being part of the flock, check out the link below: Volunteer with us!
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Orange-crowned Warbler. Photo: Jodi Taylor/Audubon Photography Awards
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What to Do if You Find an Injured or Orphaned Bird
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The arrival of spring means the arrival of nesting season.
When you come upon an injured bird or a chick on the ground that appears to be orphaned, your first instinct is to help.
Learn what you can do to assist:
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Towhee Terrace on its first day. Photo: Audubon Center at Debs Park Staff
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Towhee Terrace Takes FLIGHT at Debs
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If you stroll down Flores Trail to Los Nogales Nursery, you'll encounter one of our newest restoration sites: the Towhee Terrace.
What's special about this quaint site, however, is that it was independently established by our second-year FLIGHT interns! Learn about how they chose their plant palette, their internship experience and stories, and more in the link below:
Read more...
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Audubon Youth Leaders doing habitat restoration. Photo: Mike Fernandez
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Check Out Our Upcoming Events!- May 13th - Community Habitat Restoration
- May 16th - Community Bird Walk
- May 16th - Living Earth featuring Alaï y Las Marionetas
- May 17th - Sierra Club Angeles Chapter: 30x30 Committee: Land Protection Open House and Community Mixer
- May 23rd - Old Time String Jam Band
- May 27th - Community Habitat Restoration
- May 29th - Community Movie Night, featuring A Bug's Life
- May 30th - Urban Birds 2026, featuring a 'Best Of' selection.
- June 5th - Test Plot Habitat Restoration
View All Events
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Los Nogales Nursery
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Tucked into the hills of Northeast Los Angeles, Los Nogales Nursery has quietly flourished for over a decade—growing native plants, supporting habitat restoration, and nurturing community involvement. Now, something new is blooming: for the first time ever, the nursery is opening its gates to the public for native plant sales, thanks to a new partnership with the Theodore Payne Foundation!
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