Date: 4/30/26 10:32 am
From: eBird alert via groups.io <alert.ebird...>
Subject: [slocobirding] [eBird Alert] San Luis Obispo County Rare Bird Alert
*** Species Summary:

- Elegant Tern (1 report)
- Red-tailed Hawk (calurus/alascensis) (2 reports)
- Gray Flycatcher (3 reports)
- Vermilion Flycatcher (2 reports)
- Bell's Sparrow (canescens) (2 reports)

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Elegant Tern (Thalasseus elegans) (1)
- Reported Apr 30, 2026 07:48 by Jim Royer
- My House, 337 Henrietta Ave., Los Osos US-CA (35.3172,-120.8507), San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8507143&<ll...>,-120.8507143
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S329867809
- Comments: "Calling from the bay"

Red-tailed Hawk (calurus/alascensis) (Buteo jamaicensis calurus/alascensis) (1)
- Reported Apr 29, 2026 15:00 by Jim Stasz
- Soda Lake Road, California, US (35.074, -119.661), San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.6612087&<ll...>,-119.6612087
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S329808185
- Comments: "Expected subspecies"

Red-tailed Hawk (calurus/alascensis) (Buteo jamaicensis calurus/alascensis) (1)
- Reported Apr 29, 2026 15:00 by Edward Boyd
- Soda Lake Road, California, US (35.074, -119.661), San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.6612087&<ll...>,-119.6612087
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S329609685
- Comments: "Expected subspecies"

Gray Flycatcher (Empidonax wrightii) (1)
- Reported Apr 29, 2026 09:59 by Jeff Miller
- Carrizo Plain NM--Traver Ranch, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.6088356&<ll...>,-119.6088356
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S329492516
- Comments: "Grayish empid with round head, faint yellow wash on underside, narrow complete eye ring, two white wing bars. Bill with yellow lower mandible. Short primary projection. Wagging tail downward. Will add photos."

Gray Flycatcher (Empidonax wrightii) (1)
- Reported Apr 29, 2026 07:57 by Gabriel Rudy
- Meadow Park--San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6606531&<ll...>,-120.6606531
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S329466702
- Comments: "Continuing. In pines south of community garden."

Gray Flycatcher (Empidonax wrightii) (1)
- Reported Apr 28, 2026 08:00 by Roger Hammer
- Meadow Park--San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6606531&<ll...>,-120.6606531
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S329665163
- Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "cont bird found by Nick. awesome rarity here. it had been frequenting the lower branches but here it is at the very top of the oak."

Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus) (1)
- Reported Apr 29, 2026 18:15 by Sally Bird
- Trilogy/Monarch Dunes Golf Course, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.5520936&<ll...>,-120.5520936
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S329657028
- Comments: "Unmistakable. Male with brilliant red head, throat, breast and belly. Brown nape, back, supercilium, wings and tail.
No photo taken."

Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus) (1)
- Reported Apr 29, 2026 12:10 by Sally Bird
- Trilogy/Monarch Dunes Golf Course, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.5520936&<ll...>,-120.5520936
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S329634744
- Comments: "Unmistakable. Perched on a stake next to a pond. Flycatcher behavior. Remained for three minutes."

Bell's Sparrow (canescens) (Artemisiospiza belli canescens) (8)
- Reported Apr 29, 2026 15:00 by Jim Stasz
- Soda Lake Road, California, US (35.074, -119.661), San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.6612087&<ll...>,-119.6612087
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S329808185
- Comments: "Photos tba"

Bell's Sparrow (canescens) (Artemisiospiza belli canescens) (8)
- Reported Apr 29, 2026 15:00 by Edward Boyd
- Soda Lake Road, California, US (35.074, -119.661), San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.6612087&<ll...>,-119.6612087
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S329609685
- Comments: "."

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