Date: 6/19/25 9:46 am From: eBird alert via groups.io <alert.ebird...> Subject: [slocobirding] [eBird Alert] San Luis Obispo County Rare Bird Alert
*** Species Summary:
- Neotropic Cormorant (3 reports)
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Neotropic Cormorant (Nannopterum brasilianum) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Jun 18, 2025 15:10 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/S251849629 - Media: 5 Photos
- Comments: "The immature NECO continues at Morro Creek. It spent time in the sycamore snag before diving into the creek where it swam and dove along the creeks edge. It left the area at 3:30 and returned after 25 minutes after circling for a minute before landing again on the snag actively preening. Photos appear in random order."
Neotropic Cormorant (Nannopterum brasilianum) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Jun 18, 2025 14:50 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/S251871930 - Media: 5 Photos
- Comments: "When I arrived this bird was on its usual branch in an up creek sycamore. I spotted it as I parked the car and walked a little closer to photograph the bird. I then left to look at gulls but returned to find KP present and we watched the bird together. Eventually it flew down to the creek where it dove many times before soon flying off down to the creek mouth and then out of sight after it turned north. I left but KP kept watching and noted that the bird returned 25 minutes later. I could not discern as much detail as when I first found this bird, but in addition to what I wrote then I could clearly see the green eye color and that the feathers along white lower margin of the orange gular patch formed a thin white border. Otherwise the bird showed the same worn and frayed tail, the sharp point at the gape, and the yellow bill with a dark culmen and a distinct hook at the tip of the upper mandible. I got the impression that a couple of the tertial feathers were new, though most of the tertials, primaries, and secondaries were brown. The chest and belly were dark and mottled with white."
Neotropic Cormorant (Nannopterum brasilianum) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Jun 18, 2025 06:42 by Kevin Zimmer
- 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/S251850719 - Media: 6 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing immature (2nd-year) bird originally found in this location by Tom Edell on 6/9 (I think), while I was in Alaska, and seen daily by numbers of birders since. A smallish, more slender-built cormorant (compared to Double-crested) with a proportionately long tail. The yellow gular pouch was more orange-toned at the base, and was relatively narrow and more sharply pointed at its posterior end, with a mildly distinct, narrow, whitish border. Unlike Double-crested Cormorant, this bird did not have any bare, yellow supraloral patch, and, instead, was dark feathered through the supraloral region. Blackish-brown above, paler brownish to buff below, with green eyes, and a pinkish-yellow bill with a dusky culmen. Photos to follow. This bird is an overdue 1st record for the County."
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