Date: 6/15/25 9:38 am From: eBird alert via groups.io <alert.ebird...> Subject: [slocobirding] [eBird Alert] San Luis Obispo County Rare Bird Alert
*** Species Summary:
- Neotropic Cormorant (6 reports)
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Neotropic Cormorant (Nannopterum brasilianum) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Jun 14, 2025 10:36 by T Cross
- 1290 Embarcadero, Morro Bay US-CA 35.37606, -120.86129, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.861289&<ll...>,-120.861289 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S250295059 - Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing bird at this location. Smaller than DC Cormorant. Pointed at gape of mouth. Large, fan-like tail. See photos."
Neotropic Cormorant (Nannopterum brasilianum) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Jun 14, 2025 09:02 by Pair of Wing-Nuts
- Lila Keiser Park/Morro Creek, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.856743&<ll...>,-120.856743 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S250573780 - Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing bird (Tom Edell 6.14.25) observed feeding in creek before moving to a rock to sun. Head, neck and body mostly dark brown except for white breast mottling. Lower mandible pale yellow towards tip and darker yellow at the rear of a sharply angled gular patch (differentiated from rounded gular patch of Double-crested Cormorant) with a faint white border. Upper mandible pale gray. Long tail with black feet and legs."
Neotropic Cormorant (Nannopterum brasilianum) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Jun 14, 2025 10:02 by Tom Edell
- Morro Creek mouth, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8624411&<ll...>,-120.8624411 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S250380892 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "continuing second year bird. Today it was standing on what looked like an old concrete culvert headwall in the creek. Because this bird is very skittish when in the creek, only distant photos were taken and I did not notice anything different than what I described on previous checklists"
Neotropic Cormorant (Nannopterum brasilianum) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Jun 14, 2025 09:05 by Kaaren Perry
- Morro Creek mouth, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8624411&<ll...>,-120.8624411 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S250284252 - Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing at this location, first recorded on June 9. Bird was seen on a concrete block in the creek, sunning and preening before curling up, apparently to take a nap. Confirming field marks were described in my previous reports and most visible in the photos attached here."
Neotropic Cormorant (Nannopterum brasilianum) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Jun 12, 2025 15:32 by Tom Edell
- Morro Creek mouth, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8624411&<ll...>,-120.8624411 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S250401476 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "continuing second year bird molting in wing covert feathers and with fresh back feathers, but still retaining primaries, secondaries, tertails, and retricies (which were very worn and frayed). photos"
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