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Locating Birding Places
on the
Palos Verdes Peninsula

Step One - Finding the P.V. Peninsula

Map 1 - Legend Colored Areas: RED - Ken Malloy Harbor Regional Park (KMHRP) PINK - Banning Park - 1 mile E. of 110 on PCH BLUE - Major rivers with itinerant tule/riparian GREEN - Areas with riparian/tule (besides KMHRP) GOLD w/hash marks - Elevational gradients Letters: A - Hansen Dam B - Sepulveda Basin C - Whittier Narrows D - El Dorado Park E - Los Angeles River F - San Gabriel River Numbers: Belong to freeways Blue/green area adjacent to and just north of KMHRP is the Wilmington Drain Waterway and Wildlife Area

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The Palos Verdes Peninsula CBC Circle

Step Two - Using a good street map of
southern L.A. County, combined with the map below
and the graph that follows it, you should
be able to locate most of the "hotspots"
we locals cover around PV and the "South Bay"
as it's known locally. We have reserved our
rights and kept a few spots secret .... :)
The Palos Verdes Peninusula is the "vagrant capital"
of Los Angeles County.

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From manuscript in progress:
"Finding Birds around the P.V. Peninsula and Vicinity"
by Mitch Heindel

The "Top 50" birdwatching sites on and around the Palos Verdes Peninsula
and adjacent mainland, from the South Bay to the L.A. River.

This list could be called:

Places to go around P.V. for ...
A) the P.V. Christmas Bird Count
B) a P.V. bird-a-thon
C) a P.V. count circle year list
D) a P.V. local big-day list
E) the most cited sites in Mitch's "Birds of the Peninsula" columns
F) to see where Mitch Heindel has been, or might be.

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Local Patch Lists
(Banning Park, Harbor Park,
Wilmington Drain, etc.)


Mitch's Hummin' Bird Columns

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