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Tropical Kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Oct 07, 2025 12:26 by Conor McMahon
- UCSB North Campus Open Space (formerly Ocean Meadows Golf Course), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8792197&<ll...>,-119.8792197 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S277908971 - Comments: "Flycatching from willows around whittier pond (34.421665,-119.873284). Trilling, large bill, yellow into chest, no contrasting white throat."
Plumbeous Vireo (Vireo plumbeus) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Oct 03, 2025 08:05 by Satie Airame
- Jack O'Connell Park, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.5904007&<ll...>,-120.5904007 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S277893860 - Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Solitary-type vireo in parking lot tree closest to the dumpster. It showed only the slightest hint of yellow on the flanks. Otherwise, belly and breast and throat white. Back and crown gray showing no contrast between the two areas. White 'spectacles' connected across the face over the bill. Singing softly much of the time we spent with it."
Swinhoe's White-eye (Zosterops simplex) (Exotic: Provisional) (6) CONFIRMED
- Reported Oct 07, 2025 12:32 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/S277882659 - Media: 1 Photo, 1 Audio
- Comments: "Initially I heard their familiar buzzy calls, and then I observed a total of six birds fly into the oak at the end of 6th st."
Northern Waterthrush (Parkesia noveboracensis) (1)
- Reported Oct 08, 2025 07:55 by Pete Wolf
- Lake Los Carneros Park, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.84975&<ll...>,-119.84975 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S278012512 - Media: 1 Photo, 1 Audio
- Comments: "Merlin heard it but I didn't. Then it heard it again. Searched Spooky Cove (NE arm/cove - 34.442738, -119.848573) and found it perched on the bulrush. Darkly streaked, looked just like current pictures. Flew by me to the South as I was taking out my camera.
Saw again as it flew by me again back to it's original location. Foraged for a few moments in the shallow water/mud, tail bobbing. Flew back into the bulrush.
Saw it a few more times. Mostly traveling from it's original location around to the South of me and occasionally straight across the cove. Vocalizing often."
Black-and-white Warbler (Mniotilta varia) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Oct 07, 2025 09:51 by Lori Gaskin
- 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/S277869455 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Flitting from tree to tree in the riparian segment of the park adjacent to the flowing creek. Moved along branches similar in style to a nuthatch. Small warbler with distinctive black and white striped markings. Black and white stripes on crown. Black thick patch extending back from eye (male)."
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