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Swinhoe's White-eye (Zosterops simplex) (Exotic: Provisional) (3)
- Reported Sep 09, 2025 09:53 by Mark Holmgren
- Bohnett Park, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.7130823&<ll...>,-119.7130823 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S272460181 - Comments: "3 birds quite together for much of the 5 min of my observation. So close in fact that I thought adults might have been provisioning a fledgling. But being the first time I've ever seen this species, I don't know how they behave. Yellow throat and undertail, white belly, I think the breast was grayish. Lime-green head with a very bold, well-defined white eye ring."
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