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Neotropic Cormorant (Nannopterum brasilianum) (1)
- Reported Sep 16, 2025 14:03 by Kevin Zimmer
- Laguna Lake, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6903817&<ll...>,-120.6903817 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S273907734 - Media: 5 Photos
- Comments: "Presumably the same juvenile that has been seen here intermittently ever since I first found it at this location on 8/22. Distinctly smaller than nearby Double-crested cormorants, but with proportionately longer tail, more slender build, and smaller, thinner bill. No obvious patch of bare yellow-orange skin above the eye (as in Double-crested), and with smaller gular pouch distinctly pointing rearward at an acute angle."
Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea) (1)
- Reported Sep 16, 2025 14:03 by Kevin Zimmer
- Laguna Lake, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6903817&<ll...>,-120.6903817 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S273907734 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing juvenile. Entirely white egret except for dusky tips to several primaries; tarsi and toes uniformly yellow-olive; bill two-toned, with blackish distal portion, contrasting with bluish gray base to upper mandible, and pinkish gray base to lower mandible; irides strikingly whitish, outlined darker."
Gray Hawk (Buteo plagiatus) (1)
- Reported Sep 17, 2025 11:15 by Cathy Wallace
- 22255 El Camino Real, Santa Margarita US-CA (35.3915,-120.6057), San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.605696&<ll...>,-120.605696 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S273922541 - Comments: "Medium sized pale gray hawk, perched on a utility pole. Gray barring on breast, longish black & white striped tail, yellow legs. Got a good look at it from passenger seat of a slow-moving car. Noted broad rounded wings when it took to the air"
Gray Hawk (Buteo plagiatus) (1)
- Reported Sep 17, 2025 11:14 by Cathy Wallace
- Santa Margarita Community Park, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.604472&<ll...>,-120.604472 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S273922900 - Comments: "Medium sized pale gray hawk, perched on a utility pole. Gray barring on breast, longish black & white striped tail, yellow legs. Got a good look at it from passenger seat of a slow-moving car. Noted broad rounded wings when it took to the air"
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