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Broad-billed Hummingbird (Cynanthus latirostris) (1)
- Reported Feb 20, 2025 07:49 by Michael Moss
- 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/S214548015 - Comments: "Continuing in willow thicket west of sanitation office stocky bodied heard first repeated call white above eye silar chest color orange lower mandible no pic but will upload recording"
Green-tailed Towhee (Pipilo chlorurus) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Feb 19, 2025 15:17 by Andrea Bruce
- 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/S214482386 - Comments: "Continuing in the same location as previously reported. Emerged 20 min or so after i was scoping the area and looking among the foraging white-crowned sparrows. Saw a bird fly low, land on the ground then up to perch on the perimeter fence. No photos, but a great lookâunmistakable rufous crown, white throat, gray body and greenish wash on wings and tail"
Green-tailed Towhee (Pipilo chlorurus) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Feb 19, 2025 10:30 by Adrian O'Loghlen
- 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/S214472787 - Media: 9 Photos
- Comments: "Medium sized sparrow with bright rufous crown, white throat with dark stripes, white eyebrows and gray body and back, with green tints on wings and tail. Foraging with small flock of white crowned sparrows."
Green-tailed Towhee (Pipilo chlorurus) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Feb 19, 2025 10:30 by Pamela Viale
- 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/S214461314 - Media: 9 Photos
- Comments: "Medium sized sparrow with bright rufous crown, white throat with dark stripes, white eyebrows and gray body and back, with green tints on wings and tail. Foraging with small flock of white crowned sparrows."
Green-tailed Towhee (Pipilo chlorurus) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Feb 18, 2025 09:07 by Rob Farber
- 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/S214447079 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Continuing rarity seen in its usual area on the inside of the campground fence opposite the traffic circle entrance on Palm Ave. With a flock of White-crowned Sparrows. A grayish towhee with a rufous crown, white throat, and pale yellow-green wings."
Green-tailed Towhee (Pipilo chlorurus) (1)
- Reported Feb 17, 2025 07:39 by Richard Norton
- 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/S214111679 - Comments: "Flew from hedges around campground to tree across road, and then north across railroad track to a garden around apartments. Plain breast. Somewhat rufous tail when viewed from below."
Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteria virens) (1)
- Reported Feb 20, 2025 07:49 by Michael Moss
- 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/S214548015 - Comments: "Continuing yellow chest white above and below eye gray head and back in thickets west of sanitation district too qick for my photo skills"
Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Feb 17, 2025 14:04 by Linda Callender
- 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/S214480793 - Comments: "Continuing adult male. Seen before we got out of the car; an unmistakable bright red, blue, and green bird in the top of the willows west of the Sanitary District offices. Flew away toward Carpinteria Creek before I could get photos."
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