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Date: 12/1/25 7:32 am From: Glenn Kincaid via groups.io <glenn...> Subject: [sbcobirding] Santa Barbara Christmas Bird Count Scouting
Greetings SBCO Birders, With December upon us, it is time to begin gearing up for the Santa Barbara Christmas Bird Count - to be held this year on Saturday January 3. Visit the Santa Barbara Christmas Bird Count webpage for more information: https://santabarbaraaudubon.org/santa-barbara-christmas-bird-count The purpose of this message is to urge you to get out scouting and be on the lookout for our Target Species (Or of course anything even more unusual!), as listed below. This list can also be found on the “Target Species” tab on the Santa Barbara CBC website (see link above). If you have an assignment for the count, it’s very helpful to scout your location prior to count day. If you do not yet have an assignment or are not participating in the count, you can help out by birding within the count circle and reporting your findings. Please report sightings of these species within or near the SB CBC Count Circle via eBird, SBCO Birding, Slack, or to me directly. We will be tracking Target Bird sightings between now and count day using Steve Colwell’s wonderful tool BirdView. This link will take you to a BirdView search showing Target Bird sightings between December 1 and Count Day within the count circle. (As December progresses the data for this search will be updated daily.) https://tinyurl.com/SBCBCScouting Thanks in advance and happy scouting! ------ Santa Barbara CBC Target Species List Ross's Goose Greater White-fronted Goose Wood Duck Blue-winged Teal Eurasian Wigeon Greater Scaup Common Merganser Mountain Quail Greater Roadrunner Costa's Hummingbird Virginia Rail Wilson's Snipe Iceland Gull Elegant Tern American Bittern Yellow-crowned Night Heron Northern Pygmy-Owl Burrowing Owl Northern Saw-whet Owl Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Red-naped Sapsucker Western Flycatcher Mountain Chickadee Horned Lark Tree Swallow Violet-green Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Barn Swallow Golden-crowned Kinglet Phainopepla Brown Creeper Red-breasted Nuthatch Rock Wren Pacific Wren Mountain Bluebird Townsend's Solitaire Varied Thrush Cassin's Finch Red Crossbill Pine Siskin Lawrence's Goldfinch Lark Sparrow Chipping Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Orchard Oriole Hooded Oriole Bullock's Oriole Baltimore Oriole Tricolored Blackbird Nashville Warbler Yellow Warbler Black-throated Gray Warbler Hermit Warbler Wilson's Warbler Summer Tanager Western Tanager Rose-breasted Grosbeak Black-headed Grosbeak -- Glenn Kincaid Santa Barbara -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#39125): https://sbcobirding.groups.io/g/main/message/39125 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/116558490/858290 -=-=- For everything birding in Santa Barbara County: http://www.sbcobirding.com Read the County Reporting List guidelines: http://www.sbcobirding.com/countyreportinglist.html Updated status and distribution of Santa Barbara County birds: http://www.sbcobirding.com/lehmanbosbc.html SB Breeding Bird Study: Contribute at http://santabarbaraaudubon.org/santa-barbara-county-breeding-bird-study/ For guides to birding eBird Hotspots in SB, see https://birdinghotspots.org/us/california/santa-barbara-county -=-=- Group Owner: main+<owner...> Unsubscribe: https://sbcobirding.groups.io/g/main/unsub [<lists...>] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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