Date: 7/11/25 7:22 am From: eBird alert via groups.io <alert.ebird...> Subject: [slocobirding] [eBird Alert] San Luis Obispo County Rare Bird Alert
*** Species Summary:
- Vaux's Swift (1 report)
- Neotropic Cormorant (1 report)
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Neotropic Cormorant (Nannopterum brasilianum) (1)
- Reported Jul 09, 2025 12:35 by Petra Clayton
- 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/S258499248 - Media: 7 Photos
- Comments: "Second year bird continuing since 6/9/25 (Tom Edell)
When I arrived the bird was perched on the sycamore tree, about 100 yards up-creek from the pedestrian bridge. After a while it flew down to the creek and starting feeding. It made its way to the pedestrian bridge by both swimming under water and flying. It was feeding in the creek west of the bridge when I was leaving.
Dark head, neck and back; a lighter mottled breast and belly; tail feathers seem to be less tattered; orange gular patch with a pale border forming a V at the gape; dark supraloral area (no yellow supraloral patch as with a Double-crested Cormorant); blue eyes; yellow hooked bill with darkish culmen on the upper mandible.
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