The Bird Streets · 90069
The Streets
A cluster of bird-named roads climbing above the Sunset Strip in the Hollywood Hills, the Bird Streets sit within the 90069 zip code, bordering Trousdale Estates to the west and Sunset Plaza below. Each street is named for a bird—and each has its own architecture, altitude, and mythology. Explore them below.
Blue Jay · Cyanocitta cristata
Blue Jay Way
The street that gave the enclave its mythic origin—where George Harrison waited out the fog and wrote a song.
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Bullock's Oriole · Icterus bullockii
Oriole Drive
Cubist modernism and old Hollywood pedigree on one of the enclave’s most architectural streets.
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Oriole Way
The western stem of the Oriole family, where a legendary producer held the promontory.
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Western Tanager · Piranga ludoviciana
Tanager Way
A modern architectural street named for the most vividly colored songbird in the western hills.
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Eurasian Nightingale · Luscinia megarhynchos
Nightingale Drive
The frontier of luxury, where mega-mansions with retractable roofs chase nine-figure ambition.
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American Robin · Turdus migratorius
Robin Drive
The view-lot capital of the Bird Streets, where the city falls away to the ocean.
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Barn Swallow · Hirundo rustica
Swallow Drive
The mid-century soul of the Bird Streets, where 1961 modernism still sets the tone.
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California Thrasher · Toxostoma redivivum
Thrasher Avenue
The highest-priced perch in the enclave, where estates command close to nine figures.
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Eurasian Skylark · Alauda arvensis
Skylark Lane
A lower, greener stretch where modern mansions sit behind walls of mature privacy.
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Golden-crowned Kinglet · Regulus satrapa
Kinglet Drive
A quiet, leafy street whose tiny namesake is the smallest bird in the enclave.
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Northern Flicker · Colaptes auratus
Flicker Place
Celebrity pedigree and the enclave’s most ambitious new build.
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Hermit Thrush · Catharus guttatus
Thrush Way
A slender, quiet spur off the upper ridgeline, named for the bird with the most haunting song in the North American forest.
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Wilson's Warbler · Cardellina pusilla
Warbler Way
A mid-slope street named for a tiny yellow migrant that passes through the chaparral each spring.
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Warbler Place
A small cul-de-sac variant on Warbler, named for the understated warbler that nests in the hills year-round.
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Flicker Way
The companion to Flicker Place, where the enclave's celebrity pedigree meets its most ambitious new architecture.
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Western Bluebird · Sialia mexicana
Bluebird Avenue
A lower, sun-warmed stretch named for the bird that means, everywhere in America, a kind of good fortune.
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Bobolink · Dolichonyx oryzivorus
Bobolink Place
A short, tucked-away close named for one of the great long-distance migrants of the Americas.
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Northern Mockingbird · Mimus polyglottos
Mockingbird Place
A central close named for California's state bird, the great mimic whose song catalog never ends.
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The Boundary
Doheny Drive
The grand western boundary of the Bird Streets—where the hillside luxury of 90069 meets the Sunset Strip below.
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Budgerigar · Melopsittacus undulatus
Marcheeta Place
A cul-de-sac roosting just above the Bird Streets—named in 1924 alongside its feathery neighbors, and perhaps, the story goes, for someone's parakeet.
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Warbling Vireo · Vireo gilvus
Vireo Drive
A leafy, mid-tier drive named for the plain gray songbird whose warble is the soundtrack of the western canopy.
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