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Decades ago, Pete Bloom helped capture the last wild California Condor for captive breeding — and thus helped save this marvelous species from extinction. He went on to become of our country’s best raptor field experts. You can meet Bloom at Los Angeles Audubon’s monthly program at the Audubon Center at Debs Park. He’ll be [...]

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Great article in the Los Angeles Times today from Jessica Garrison about how Debs Park is a unique bit of nature amid urban L.A. She notes the important role of the Audubon Center at Debs Park in connecting Angelenos to nature: Then, in 2001, Hernandez and his successor, Councilman Ed Reyes, worked with the Audubon Society [...]

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Like the rest of the California community, we were stunned to read of the passing of broadcaster Huell Howser. His contribution to documenting the glories of California — mostly through his public television shows — was a treasure that will likely never be replaced. Because he managed to turn just about every inch of the Golden [...]

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Not long ago, the Audubon Center at Debs Park hosted its annual holiday party. The entire neighboring community was invited, and guests enjoyed making holiday wreaths and decorations out of native plants. This year, we added an element to the party that had a conservation focus – giving away native plants that attract hummingbirds.  The included [...]

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For the past several years, member of the Arroyo Green Team have participated in Aududon’s annual Christmas Bird Count (CBC). This year, members headed out into Debs Park to see what birds were around.

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On a November morning, Arroyo Green Team, boarded white vans, headed to Occidental College. Located just a few miles from Debs Park, the College seems like a whole other world and the Green Team’s visit to the Moore Laboratory of Zoology proved to provide a world tour via the specimens housed there.  Dr. John McCormack [...]

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The Audubon Center at Debs Park’s Arroyo Green Team, our program for local teens, continues to address local environmental issues. At the December 1st general meeting for the Arroyo Green Team, members discussed future projects and activities for the coming Spring term. Among the ideas mentioned at the meeting were more community outreach opportunities, continued [...]

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If you live in L.A. and want to take advantage of the many great Audubon programs, here are going on this weekend that might interest you. Most of these are sponsored by one of the great Audubon chapters in the area: Share on Facebook

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As natural wildlife spectacles go, it’s hard to beat the migration of the Vaux’s Swift (Vaux’s rhymes with Foxes). By itself an unglamorous gray bird, the Vaux’s Swift becomes  the stuff of psychedelic imagination when it groups with thousands churning and swirling friends. As it moves southward in the fall, it roosts by the thousands [...]

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Ten years ago today, something historic happened. On that day, people gathered in Debs Park, Los Angeles’ fourth largest park, to plant a coast live oak — a ceremonial first step in the construction of the Audubon Center at Debs Park. School children, elected officials, and other supporters were all on hand to celebrate the [...]

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Audubon centers make a huge difference in the lives of the communities they serve. Here’s a great story, told by Jeff Chapman, of a girl from Northeast L.A. who came to the center and got hooked on nature: Share on Facebook

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Lush stands of willows and Sycamores, flowing water, Great Blue Herons and Belted Kingfishers.  These are not your typical visions of the Los Angeles River, but this month, member of the Audubon Center at Debs Park’s Arroyo Green Team have experienced this urban habitat by kayak.  Led by LA River Expeditions, teen participants have gotten [...]

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For the past 7 years, the Audubon Center at Debs Park has given college students the opportunity to learn more about Audubon, conservation, and environmental education.  Our internship program employs 4 students each summer to help us deliver our summer day camp program:  An Arroyo Adventure.  Over the course of the summer, these talented people [...]

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Jeff Chapman, who runs the Audubon Center at Debs Park in Los Angeles, snapped this cool photo of about 5,000 Vaux’s Swifts diving into the brick chimney of the Chester Building on Broadway in downtown Los Angeles last night. Bigger photo below the fold. Share on Facebook

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