Date: 3/15/26 7:29 am From: eBird alert via groups.io <alert.ebird...> Subject: [slocobirding] [eBird Alert] San Luis Obispo County Rare Bird Alert
*** Species Summary:
- Blue-winged x Cinnamon Teal (hybrid) (1 report)
- King Eider (3 reports)
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron (2 reports)
- California Condor (1 report)
- Chipping Sparrow (1 report)
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King Eider (Somateria spectabilis) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Mar 14, 2026 08:29 by Nick & Jane
- Morro Bay SP--Marina/Boardwalk Trail, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8418006&<ll...>,-120.8418006 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S309267256 - Comments: "Continuing female on distant oyster farm platform. Could see the overall size and shape as a large duck, plumper than a mallard but smaller than a cormorant. Could also see its warm brown tones and small black bill while it preened. Very distant photos."
King Eider (Somateria spectabilis) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Mar 14, 2026 09:39 by Nick & Jane
- Morro Bay SP--Natural History Museum, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8437825&<ll...>,-120.8437825 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S309267515 - Comments: "Continuing female on distant oyster farm platform. Could see the overall size and shape as a large duck, plumper than a mallard but smaller than a cormorant. Could also see its warm brown tones and small black bill while it preened. Very distant photos."
King Eider (Somateria spectabilis) (1)
- Reported Mar 14, 2026 10:48 by Pair of Wing-Nuts
- Pasadena Park Beach, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8440733&<ll...>,-120.8440733 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S309293064 - Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing large, stocky, almost all-brown sea duck with long sloping black bill. Observed loafing and preening on it's favorite oyster farm equipment barge near rigging closest to shore-line point."
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