Date: 11/15/24 8:51 am From: eBird alert via groups.io <alert.ebird...> Subject: [slocobirding] [eBird Alert] San Luis Obispo County Rare Bird Alert
*** Species Summary:
- Eurasian x American Wigeon (hybrid) (2 reports)
- Broad-billed Hummingbird (1 report)
- Savannah Sparrow (Large-billed) (2 reports)
- Tennessee Warbler (2 reports)
- Western Tanager (3 reports)
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Eurasian x American Wigeon (hybrid) (Mareca penelope x americana) (1)
- Reported Nov 14, 2024 07:04 by Herb Elliott
- Morro Bay SP--Marina/Boardwalk Trail, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8418006&<ll...>,-120.8418006 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S202490239 - Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "Nice intermediate male foraging with other wigeons. Like pure EUWI but with almost even amount of orange and green on head, somewhat faint AMWI-like face pattern, grayish sides, perhaps with a little pink/buffy color mixed in. - digiscopes by K.H."
Eurasian x American Wigeon (hybrid) (Mareca penelope x americana) (1)
- Reported Nov 14, 2024 07:04 by Reef Comer
- Morro Bay SP--Marina/Boardwalk Trail, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8418006&<ll...>,-120.8418006 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S202494084 - Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "Nice intermediate male foraging with other wigeons. Like pure EUWI but with almost even amount of orange and green on head, somewhat faint AMWI-like face pattern, grayish sides, perhaps with a little pink/buffy color mixed in. Bad digiscopes tba."
Savannah Sparrow (Large-billed) (Passerculus sandwichensis rostratus/atratus) (3) CONFIRMED
- Reported Nov 14, 2024 07:04 by Herb Elliott
- Morro Bay SP--Marina/Boardwalk Trail, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8418006&<ll...>,-120.8418006 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S202490239 - Media: 6 Photos
- Comments: "Two at usual spot and one at point by large cypress; the first three images are of the same bird; the next three images are of bird number two; no images of the third bird"
Tennessee Warbler (Leiothlypis peregrina) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Nov 14, 2024 09:58 by Herb Elliott
- Morro Bay SP--Campground, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8387738&<ll...>,-120.8387738 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S202490269 - Media: 5 Photos
- Comments: "Fall bird in bottlebrush and oaks here: (35.347399, -120.836668). Very skulky and active, never sat still. Calling every once in a while. The warbler had a grayish neck and crown with contrasting bright olive green above and yellowish underparts with whitish undertail coverts.
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