Date: 9/6/25 1:38 pm
From: eBird alert via groups.io <alert.ebird...>
Subject: [sbcobirding] [eBird Alert] Santa Barbara County Rare Bird Alert
*** Species Summary:

- Common Merganser (1 report)
- Costa's Hummingbird (2 reports)
- Common Tern (1 report)
- Reddish Egret (1 report)
- Swinhoe's White-eye (1 report)
- Vesper Sparrow (1 report)

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Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) (3)
- Reported Sep 06, 2025 10:19 by Daniel Farrar
- Rancho Guadalupe Dunes Preserve, including Santa Maria River Estuary (SBA Co.), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6473815&<ll...>,-120.6473815
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S271857197
- Comments: "Female or imm types with a Red breasted female. White chins, less shaggy crest than RB and more robust bill."

Costa's Hummingbird (Calypte costae) (1)
- Reported Sep 05, 2025 08:40 by Laura Baldwin
- Sedgwick Reserve (restricted access), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.0405478&<ll...>,-120.0405478
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S271673037
- Comments: "Tiny. Very pale white eyebrow and throat/ top of chest. Gray auricular face pattern. Bird was perched for good views."

Costa's Hummingbird (Calypte costae) (1)
- Reported Sep 05, 2025 08:40 by Brenda Juarez
- Sedgwick Reserve (restricted access), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.0405478&<ll...>,-120.0405478
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S271673155
- Comments: "Tiny. Very pale white eyebrow and throat/ top of chest. Gray auricular face pattern. Bird was perched for good views."

Common Tern (Sterna hirundo) (2)
- Reported Sep 06, 2025 10:19 by Daniel Farrar
- Rancho Guadalupe Dunes Preserve, including Santa Maria River Estuary (SBA Co.), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6473815&<ll...>,-120.6473815
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S271857197
- Comments: "Small terns with dark carpal bar, black edges to tail and black cap extending arms head."

Reddish Egret (Egretta rufescens) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 05, 2025 15:00 by John Callender
- Sand Point, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.536549&<ll...>,-119.536549
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S271665757
- Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "On the beach near Sand Point. iPhone photo."

Swinhoe's White-eye (Zosterops simplex) (Exotic: Provisional) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 05, 2025 12:12 by Spencer Seale
- Carpinteria Creek, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.5140259&<ll...>,-119.5140259
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S271643374
- Comments: "Heard a few buzzy calls and then saw a small, warbler-sized bird with yellow throat, undertail, and backside. Creamy belly, bold white eyering, and slightly decurved bill. Foraging in willows and oaks about midway between 6th & 8th."

Vesper Sparrow (Pooecetes gramineus) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 04, 2025 10:56 by Libby Patten
- Elings Park, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.7349691&<ll...>,-119.7349691
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S271676596
- Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Bright white eyering, brown cheek patch, notched tail, crisp streaks on breast, pale wingbars, streaky back and pink legs. Foraging on ground next to stone bench."

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