Date: 7/8/25 11:10 am From: Florence Sanchez via groups.io <sanchezucsb11...> Subject: Re: [sbcobirding] a 40-year progression of the Santa Barbara County species total
Thanks, Jamie. It was fun reading through this bird list to see how it has grown for our county over the years. One thing I want to note is that the person's name listed is the first person who reported that species on an eBird checklist, not necessarily the person who first found the bird. A lot of the earlier sightings predate ebird and not everyone who uses it has bothered to enter their historic checklists; other finders just don't use eBird regularly; while others may keep their lists hidden.
Florence Sanchez
On Monday, July 7, 2025 at 08:09:28 PM PDT, Jamie Chavez via groups.io <almiyi...> wrote:
For those who might be wondering which bird species have been added over time this can reliably be found at eBird. I think the list going back 20 years is probably sequentially correct, although there are a couple of birds that show in eBird that aren't included in the total (Trumpeter Swan, Vega Gull... yet).
Here is the list:https://ebird.org/region/US-CA-083/bird-list?rank=lrec
Jamie M. Chavez
Santa Maria, CA
On Monday, July 7th, 2025 at 12:11 PM, Paul Lehman via groups.io <lehman.paul...> wrote:
I am writing a short history of the evolution of my missive "The Birds of Santa Barbara County, California" (BOSB) for the Santa Barbara Audubon Society newsletter. A little aside that this project generated was how the total number of species recorded in Santa Barbara County has surged forward over the past 40+ years. The totals (without the Channel Islands) have been as follows:
1982 (my original Masters thesis version of BOSB): 412 species
1994 (book version of BOSB published): 454 species
2025 (online version of BOSB as of 1 July): 506 species
So, quite the surge in the number of species over all these years. If one includes the Channel Islands, that adds an additional 4 or 5 species.
