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Orchard Oriole (Icterus spurius) (2) CONFIRMED
- Reported Feb 26, 2025 07:11 by John Callender
- Carpinteria Valley Memorial Park, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.525857&<ll...>,-119.525857 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S215540050 - Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Two adult males seen well through binoculars in the trees on the northeast edge of the park. Smallish orioles with ochre bodies and extensive black hoods, making characteristic "chuck" calls. Seen first while I was walking my dog with only binoculars, at which time I saw two separate adult males in different parts of the same tree simultaneously. Later I returned with my camera and was able to get a photo of one of the adult males. A few minutes later I photographed an adult male in a different part of the park; it seemed likely to me that this was the second bird, because I'd last seen the first one heading east across the street next to the park, and this one was in the north-central part of the park. But I wasn't sure it was actually the second bird; the first might have moved there without my seeing it."
Hooded Oriole (Icterus cucullatus) (1)
- Reported Feb 26, 2025 07:11 by John Callender
- Carpinteria Valley Memorial Park, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.525857&<ll...>,-119.525857 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S215540050 - Comments: "First year male, seen in the trees on the northeast edge of the park. Yellow body, black bib, and a relatively long, droopy beak. It was making "weep" vocalizations that were distinctly different than the "chuck" calls being made by the nearby Orchard Orioles with which it was loosely associating."
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