Date: 4/16/25 8:46 am From: eBird alert via groups.io <alert.ebird...> Subject: [sbcobirding] [eBird Alert] Santa Barbara County Rare Bird Alert
*** Species Summary:
- Virginia Rail (1 report)
- American x Black Oystercatcher (hybrid) (1 report)
- Green-tailed Towhee (1 report)
- Baltimore Oriole (1 report)
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Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Apr 15, 2025 10:32 by Toby Fowler
- Mesa Rd. at Los Carneros Rd.--NW, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.86057&<ll...>,-119.86057 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S225917398 - Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing? First bird I saw when I locked up my bike by the parking lot. Singing here (34.422279, -119.862097), and may have moved to (34.422183, -119.861422). Bright orange with a splotchy black face.
Not part of the survey.
If it is the same bird, it raises an interesting question: is it going to stick around for the summer? A month seems a long time to fuel up on migration. It seems more orange then when I last saw it."
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