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Swinhoe's White-eye (Zosterops simplex) (Exotic: Provisional) (3)
- Reported Mar 16, 2025 09:05 by Barbara Millett
- UCSB North Campus Open Space (formerly Ocean Meadows Golf Course), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8792197&<ll...>,-119.8792197 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S218928189 - Comments: "3 seen together at entrance to NCOS at end of Scripps Crescent. Bold white eye-ring, yellow green above, gray below, yellow undertail coverts."
Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteria virens) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Mar 15, 2025 08:54 by Caleb P.
- 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/S218744743 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Found by M. Brady last year and continuing this morning in the willows west of sanitary district offices. Olive-gray back, white underparts, bright yellow throat and upper chest, and white lores."
Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula) (1)
- Reported Mar 15, 2025 14:13 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/S218763691 - Comments: "Continuing. With the male hooded oriole, at several points actually on the same leaf. Splotchy face and back, giving it a mottled appearance. No eyestripe. Much of the black on the face does look like it could be stain, as others have pointed out. However, the black on the cap and back looks fairly normal."
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