Date: 1/19/25 12:14 am
From: eBird alert via groups.io <alert.ebird...>
Subject: [sbcobirding] [eBird Alert] Santa Barbara County Rare Bird Alert
*** Species Summary:

- Tropical Kingbird (4 reports)
- Swinhoe's White-eye (1 report)
- Sage Thrasher (2 reports)
- Green-tailed Towhee (2 reports)
- Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle x Audubon's) (1 report)

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Tropical Kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus) (1)
- Reported Jan 18, 2025 13:50 by Toby Fowler
- Coal Oil Point, Devereux Beach, Sands Beach, and bluff trails, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8783064&<ll...>,-119.8783064
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S209813422
- Comments: "Trill calls heard by the house area. Later saw it perched by the entrance down to the beach."

Tropical Kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus) (1)
- Reported Jan 18, 2025 10:06 by Noah Gaines
- Lake Los Carneros Park, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.84975&<ll...>,-119.84975
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S209805434
- Comments: "Biking through. Heard cont TRKI trilling call."

Tropical Kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus) (3)
- Reported Jan 18, 2025 08:16 by Vade Shah
- Lake Los Carneros Park, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.84975&<ll...>,-119.84975
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S209779615
- Comments: "Perched on tree on east side of lake"

Tropical Kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus) (1)
- Reported Jan 18, 2025 07:39 by Zachary Ginn
- Lake Los Carneros Park, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.84975&<ll...>,-119.84975
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S209751389
- Comments: "Continuing bird. Large tyrannus flycatcher with full yellow belly and paler head than cassins."

Swinhoe's White-eye (Zosterops simplex) (Exotic: Provisional) (1)
- Reported Jan 18, 2025 09:42 by David Compton
- stakeout Painted Bunting (Carpinteria Sanitary District, 2023-2024), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.517327&<ll...>,-119.517327
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S209777195
- Comments: "Heard calling and seen only briefly in flight"

Sage Thrasher (Oreoscoptes montanus) (1)
- Reported Jan 17, 2025 07:30 by rick skillin
- Sedgwick Reserve (restricted access), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.0405478&<ll...>,-120.0405478
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S209822916
- Comments: "Director’s grove - R Skillin"

Sage Thrasher (Oreoscoptes montanus) (1)
- Reported Jan 17, 2025 07:30 by Brenda Juarez
- Sedgwick Reserve (restricted access), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.0405478&<ll...>,-120.0405478
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S209642329
- Comments: "Director’s grove - R Skillin"

Green-tailed Towhee (Pipilo chlorurus) (1)
- Reported Jan 18, 2025 13:22 by Lori Gaskin
- Carpinteria State Beach, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.5230103&<ll...>,-119.5230103
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S209812544
- Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "Observed in the hedge growing over the black fence approx here 34.392166, -119.520327. Associating with a flock of WCSP. Good views; poor photos. Prominent white throat and notable rufous head. Olive green/grayish upper parts. Gray chest."

Green-tailed Towhee (Pipilo chlorurus) (1)
- Reported Jan 18, 2025 11:22 by David Compton
- Carpinteria State Beach, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.5230103&<ll...>,-119.5230103
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S209785490
- Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing in the hedge southeast of the Palm Street entrance, along the chain-link fence."

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle x Audubon's) (Setophaga coronata coronata x auduboni) (1)
- Reported Jan 18, 2025 08:37 by Jamie Chavez
- Pioneer Park, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.4527137&<ll...>,-120.4527137
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S209759655
- Comments: "Adult bird showing a partial yellow patch on an otherwise white throt, and a fairly bright whitish supercilium being brightest toward the back terminating in a wide spot. Quite distinctive looking superficially like a Yellow-throated Warbler."

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