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Date: 4/9/26 12:33 pm From: Tom Benson via groups.io <thomasabenson...> Subject: [inlandcountybirds] California Bird Atlas - San Bernardino and Riverside County update
Hi inland county birders, The California Bird Atlas monthly summary for March has been posted on the eBird portal at: https://ebird.org/atlascalifornia/news/atlas-dispatch-march-2026��The next Town Hall Q & A session on Zoom will be on April 16 at 7 pm and will include project updates, take questions, and feature Megan Jankowski (CBA Review Coordinator) presenting on how to find breeding birds. Register for the Zoom here. Submit questions here. Breeding season is already underway in some parts of San Bernardino and Riverside counties, but peak breeding activity will occur here over the next few months, and we need all the help we can get! If you haven’t joined the eBird Atlas project yet, you can do so here. Some CBA stats for San Bernardino County as of April 9, 2026: Number of Atlasers = 168Hours of Atlas effort = 1080eBird checklists = 1225Blocks with data = 259 (13% of the county total)Number of species with breeding confirmed: 78 Here are the species with breeding confirmed in at least 5 blocks: # Blocks25 Common Raven13 House Finch12 Bushtit9 European Starling7 Red-tailed Hawk, House Sparrow6 Black Phoebe, Lesser Goldfinch5 Cassin's Kingbird, House Sparrow Here are the atlas blocks with the most confirmed species: # Species confirmed19 San Bernardino North CW12 Guasti CW12 Redlands CE11 Morongo Valley CW9 Prado Dam NE Some CBA stats for Riverside County as of April 9, 2026: Number of Atlasers = 262Hours of Atlas effort = 801eBird checklists = 1316Blocks with data = 211 (29% of the county total)Number of species with breeding confirmed: 64 Here are the species with breeding confirmed in at least 5 blocks: # Blocks14 Anna's Hummingbird, Bushtit13 House Finch12 Common Raven10 Verdin9 Red-tailed Hawk8 Costa's Hummingbird7 Cliff Swallow, European Starling, House Sparrow, Lesser Goldfinch, Black-throated Sparrow, California Towhee6 American Crow5 Allen's Hummingbird, Great Blue Heron, Great Horned Owl, Northern Mockingbird Here are the atlas blocks with the most confirmed species: # Species confirmed31 Riverside East NW22 Riverside East NE 11 Riverside East CE 11 Riverside East CW 8 El Casco SW8 La Quinta SW Tom BensonCBA Regional Coordinator for San Bernardino and Riverside counties -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1780): https://groups.io/g/inlandcountybirds/message/1780 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/118748814/858290 Group Owner: inlandcountybirds+<owner...> Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/inlandcountybirds/unsub [<lists...>] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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