Laughing Bird

Some of you may think it is impossible to do some bird watching in Los Angeles or in any other city. But there are places you can visit making it possible for you to enjoy this pastime.

The first is the Arboretum of Los Angeles County. It is a 127-hectare garden is blooming with plants and trees make life makes it an ideal place for some birds to live. Here you get to see 200 peacock birds were imported from India and some peacocks.

Another place is the Los Angeles Oiled Bird Care and Education Center. This is a 10000 square feet which can accommodate 1,000 birds at a time.

Around 40,000 children visit this place every year. Customers will be able to see two large outdoor aviaries that house pelicans. They even have a hospital for birds that have been found and brought into care by looking at the monitor.

You can also visit the Audubon Center at Debs Park. Considered one of the greenest buildings in the country, it houses about coyotes and 138 species of birds.

Of course, a place that you can not fail to do some bird watching is the Los Angeles Zoo.

Examples include the Andean Condor, African Fish Eagle, Chilean flamingo, egrets, mandarin duck, Laughing Kookaburra, Plush-crested Jay, Military Macaw, red pimples Hornbill, Sacred Ibis, thick-billed parrot, ostrich, Congo Peacock, peacock blue, common Rave, Roseate Spoonbill, Black Swan, Inca Tern, Lady Ross'sTuraco, Cape Vulture, Cape Griffon Vulture and many more.

But if you want to do some bird watching without paying an entrance or parking fee, drive around town and you just might see some particularly around the UCLA campus located on the Westwood area of Los Angeles.

You can also find birds in the river flood control in Los Angeles in particular near the hills of Montebello, near Hansen Dam. Here you will find Nighthawks, Roadrunners, Costa Hummingbird, Cactus Wren and the loggerhead shrike.

The boreal forest is also home to 60 species of birds especially during migration season and during the winter. You could see surf and white-winged scoters diving for clams and mussels as well as Newport Beach and the Golden Crown Sparrow all the way from Yukon, Canada.

If you like watching birds, you can join groups that travel and training to meet their colleagues. Some of them are the Los Angeles Audubon Society, the West Los Angeles Bird Club, the Parrot Society of Los Angeles and the Gold Country Bird Society. Meetings are held monthly. You can ask questions by sending an email or by visiting their website.

When bird watching by yourself or with a group, make sure you bring all the equipment you need as a pair of binoculars, a pen, a journal, a hat, backpack and even a digital camera. You can share this information with other members at the next meeting so that you become an active participant not just someone who sits back and listens to everything everyone else has to say.

The places mentioned just goes to show he can still do some bird watching in Los Angeles, even if it is a bustling city. So check these places out and have fun.