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California Condor (Gymnogyps californianus) (1)
- Reported Jan 09, 2025 13:20 by Russ Namitz
- 2562–2570 Forest Service Road 9N11, Maricopa US-CA 34.83834, -119.54356, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.543558&<ll...>,-119.543558 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S208644623 - Media: 6 Photos
- Comments: "Yellow-tagged individual = Yellow #1. Immature bird, but had white axillaries and some underwing covers."
California Condor (Gymnogyps californianus) (1)
- Reported Jan 09, 2025 13:20 by Leisyka Parrott
- 2562–2570 Forest Service Road 9N11, Maricopa US-CA 34.83834, -119.54356, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.543558&<ll...>,-119.543558 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S208644624 - Media: 6 Photos
- Comments: "Yellow-tagged individual, but don’t know if I got a clear enough photo to ID tag number. Immature Bird, but had beginning of white underwing covers."
Zone-tailed Hawk (Buteo albonotatus) (1)
- Reported Jan 09, 2025 10:32 by James Rounds
- Armour Ranch Rd., Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.0399256&<ll...>,-120.0399256 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S208629200 - Comments: "In a mixed kettle with two red tails, four turkey vultures, and two swifts. Flight style and overall body shape/size very similar to the turkey vultures. Broad white band on the tail, black head with bright yellow bill. I am familiar with the species from northern Arizona."
Winter Wren (Troglodytes hiemalis) (1)
- Reported Jan 07, 2025 08:00 by Conor McMahon
- UCSB--West Campus, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.871869&<ll...>,-119.871869 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S208549439 - Media: 2 Audio
- Comments: "Finally! Took a couple visits. Continuing from 34.4134619, -119.8704069 where found a month ago by Alex
Very brief views of a tiny brown, round, stubby-tailed wren creeping very sneakily, mouselike, through the dense brush. Recorded distinctive angry call notes, kind of like a Song Sparrow, dissimilar to Pacific. Great bike bird"
Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufum) (1)
- Reported Jan 09, 2025 12:55 by Bradley Hacker 🦜
- Stow Grove Park, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.846034&<ll...>,-119.846034 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S208650897 - Comments: "Thrasher. Gray face; yellow eye; brown cap, back, primaries and upper tail; white breast and belly with long brown streaks; white vent, undertail, and wingbars. Appeared from densest part of hedge N of blue trashcan and wandered south under the hedge to about the volleyball court, where I lost sight of it. Bad pictures that I won't use to sully Macauley library."
Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufum) (1)
- Reported Jan 09, 2025 07:08 by Michael Moss
- Stow Grove Park, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.846034&<ll...>,-119.846034 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S208609902 - Comments: "Continuing seen near blue trash can in bottlebrush bush at just south of where it was observed yesterday rufous tail and underparts, slightly curved beak, heavily streaked, and yellow eyes"
Lark Bunting (Calamospiza melanocorys) (1)
- Reported Jan 09, 2025 08:09 by David Blue
- Camino Corto Open Space and Del Sol Vernal Pool Preserve, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8673469&<ll...>,-119.8673469 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S208645799 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "First found on January 4, 2025, by Alex Castelein and Max Laubstein. Seen today foraging on the ground with a large flock of White-crowned Sparrows at the West Campus Stables near the northeast corner of the riding arena. The Lark Bunting was here: (34.4140292, -119.8703758), and we viewed it from this location: (34.4143390, -119.8699942).
This was a stocky, large-headed, brown streaky bird with a thick two-toned silvery bill, and a long white patch along the folded wing. It had a white throat bordered by thick dark lateral throat-stripes, and was heavily streaked on the flanks and breast."
Lark Bunting (Calamospiza melanocorys) (1)
- Reported Jan 09, 2025 08:09 by Linda Blue
- Camino Corto Open Space and Del Sol Vernal Pool Preserve, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8673469&<ll...>,-119.8673469 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S208645800 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "First found on January 4, 2025, by Alex Castelein and Max Laubstein. Seen today foraging on the ground with a large flock of White-crowned Sparrows at the West Campus Stables near the northeast corner of the riding arena. The Lark Bunting was here: (34.4140292, -119.8703758), and we viewed it from this location: (34.4143390, -119.8699942).
This was a stocky, large-headed, brown streaky bird with a thick two-toned silvery bill, and a long white patch along the folded wing. It had a white throat bordered by thick dark lateral throat-stripes, and was heavily streaked on the flanks and breast."
Black-headed Grosbeak (Pheucticus melanocephalus) (1)
- Reported Jan 09, 2025 08:45 by Bradley Hacker 🦜
- Tecolote Creek -- Hwy 101 to LPNF, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.917904&<ll...>,-119.917904 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S208621037 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Grosbeak seen with GCSp and WCSp. Furtive and difficult to see. Dodgy pictures--esp. bill--suggest adult, non-breeding BHGr, not RBGr."
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