Cooper Ecotours - Our Trips

Two-Hour Tour
Think Locally
Half-Day Tour
Morning in Nature
Full Day Tour
Take a Road Trip

Take a two-hour tour of nearby hotspots such as Malibu Lagoon, Sepulveda Basin, or Temescal Canyon. Have a meeting at 10? We'll pick you up early and drop you off two hours later. $100 (add $50 per additional person).

Where will we go?

	Malibu Lagoon See dozens of bird species at this natural estuary, including Elegant Tern, Heermann's Gull, Snowy Plover, and Cinnamon Teal. Landbirds include guaranteed Allen's Hummingbird, plus oak woodland birds nearby.
	Santa Monica Mountains Oak woodland and chaparral birds are common, such as California Quail, Acorn and Nuttall's woodpeckers, Wrentit, and other Pacific-coast endemics.
	Ballona Wetlands Rocky-shore sandpipers like Black Oystercatcher, Surfbird, and Black Turnstone are common nearly year-round, as are Brown Pelican. In winter, we'll see a variety of grebes, scoters, and gulls. Expect Elegant and Least terns and a variety of shorebirds in summer.
	Sepulveda Basin American White Pelican and Tricolored Blackbird in winter and a variety of herons and egrets year-round, plus great looks at western woodland species like the Black-chinned Hummingbird, Cassin's Kingbird and Bullock's Oriole.
	Whittier Narrows Some of the best southwestern riparian habitat in the area is here, only a few minutes east of downtown L.A. This is home to the rare Least Bell's Vireo, Yellow-breasted Chat, Blue Grosbeak, and others. Year-round diversity is very high, especially in late fall and winter.
	Exotics L.A., along with Miami, Florida, is home to a wide variety of naturalized bird species from around the world, including parrots (mainly from Latin America), weavers (Africa) and finches (southeast Asia). Maybe you just need the Spotted Dove for your lifelist? We'll find them.