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The region experienced high winds seasonally prior to climate change. Look at a topographical map of the southern California region - the deserts get hot and the high pressure pushes through the mountains (the San Gabriel range is one of the only east-west mountain ranges in the world), passing through the wide open savannah of the southern coast. The current wind conditions are a normal part of the winter cycle in SoCal.
Focusing on the conditions doesn't put energy and resources isn't a good use. It really is a matter of finding what caused it and stopping that. There are no fire spreading birds out in CA (or this would be a known and common source of the annual fires). Each time the fires are burning, they are because of something a human did, like driving with metal scraping the road and creating sparks. Or power lines that hang over mountains getting knocked down by the predictable winds. Or gender reveal parties and other idiots who spread fire to celebrate. Or casually flicking a cigarette out of a car window. It's always people.
100 things could have started it...
Take what caused it down, pass it around, and you got 99 problems still.
Even if a fire starting bird ain't one.
That can be your opinion. It still wouldn't be correct, but you can definitely have that as an opinion. Like how people think the Earth is flat, the moon is fake, and Elon Musk is a genius.