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King Eider (Somateria spectabilis) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Apr 22, 2026 11:11 by Brenda Linfield
- 1143 Pasadena Drive, Baywood-Los Osos, California, US (35.331, -120.843), San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8431758&<ll...>,-120.8431758 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S325938256 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Lightly colored chest, brown otherwise. Heavy duck with a black bill, perched on sandbar at a very low tide."
Hammond's Flycatcher (Empidonax hammondii) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Apr 22, 2026 09:20 by Petra Clayton
- Cerro Alto Campground, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.7491446&<ll...>,-120.7491446 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S325742324 - Media: 5 Photos
- Comments: "This flycatcher was overall smaller, duller, and grayer than a “Pacific-slope” Western Flycatcher; gray on breast and down the sides creating a "vest." It had a "big-headed" look with a small, mostly all-dark bill and a white, somewhat oval eye ring. The primary feathers were longer than expected for a Pacific-slope Flycatcher. It had two pale wingbars.--- Observed along the upper third of the paved road in an oak tree off the road."
Palm Warbler (Western) (Setophaga palmarum palmarum) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Apr 23, 2026 08:01 by Nick & Jane
- Laguna Lake, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6903817&<ll...>,-120.6903817 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S326149466 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Adult breeding. Yellow into face, throat, chest, undertail. Some rufous streaks on upper chest flanks, streaks mostly brown, green tones to otherwise brown primaries, whitish belly. Calling from large mixed warbler flock, then seen. Didn’t see tail bob, but may have simply missed it."
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