Date: 3/15/25 3:43 pm
From: eBird alert via groups.io <alert.ebird...>
Subject: [sbcobirding] [eBird Alert] Santa Barbara County Rare Bird Alert
*** Species Summary:

- White-winged Dove (1 report)
- Tropical Kingbird (1 report)
- Swinhoe's White-eye (2 reports)
- Baltimore Oriole (1 report)

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White-winged Dove (Zenaida asiatica) (2)
- Reported Mar 15, 2025 07:57 by Peter Gaede
- Winchester Canyon Rd. at Cathedral Oaks Rd. field, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.9031417&<ll...>,-119.9031417
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S218642126
- Comments: "Continuing; photos"

Tropical Kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Mar 14, 2025 15:45 by Peter Gaede
- Andree Clark Bird Refuge, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.6572856&<ll...>,-119.6572856
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S218532606
- Comments: "In sycamore tree at parking lot. Rapid Twitter calls"

Swinhoe's White-eye (Zosterops simplex) (Exotic: Provisional) (1)
- Reported Mar 15, 2025 09:38 by Peter Gaede
- Dream Foundation parking lot, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.710426&<ll...>,-119.710426
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S218671804
- Comments: "Flew by giving “twseeo” calls"

Swinhoe's White-eye (Zosterops simplex) (Exotic: Provisional) (1)
- Reported Mar 15, 2025 11:26 by Linus Blomqvist
- Storke apartments (restricted access), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8629427&<ll...>,-119.8629427
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S218693127
- Comments: "Will upload recording."

Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula) (1)
- Reported Mar 14, 2025 17:35 by Toby Fowler
- Mesa Rd. at Los Carneros Rd.--SW, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.86055&<ll...>,-119.86055
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S218698648
- Media: 12 Photos
- Comments: "Female. Orange oriole, bright orange fading lighter by the legs (but not fully pale). Splotchy black on head, concentrated on the throat and cap, without a defined eye stripe like a Bullock's. One defined white wingbar, with a second larger and less well defined one below. Hanging out with the male Hooded Oriole, both of which were apparently getting nesting material from the palm they were in."

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