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Neotropic Cormorant (Nannopterum brasilianum) (1)
- Reported Aug 06, 2026 08:08 by Eunice Schroeder
- Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve--Devereux Lagoon, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8756027&<ll...>,-119.8756027 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S380589174 - Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing immature. Flew into one of the trees across the road from the parking lot by the nature center just after I got out of my car, and remained perching there almost the whole time I was there. Smaller, slimmer, shorter-billed and longer-tailed than the Double-crested Cormorants also perching in the tree. Yellow facial skin at the end of the lower and upper mandibles is angled, like a sideways V, where they meet the cheek and throat, and there is no yellow skin present at the lores, in contrast with DCCO’s. Photos."
Swinhoe's White-eye (Zosterops simplex) (Exotic: Naturalized) (2)
- Reported Aug 06, 2026 15:39 by Dominick Burnham
- 3304 State St, Santa Barbara US-CA 34.44048, -119.73497, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.734971&<ll...>,-119.734971 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S380623339 - Comments: "Male with white eye ring and female or juvenile. Coming from and going back to one of the huge fig trees along the 3300 block of State Street, near the First Bank. Heard on Tuesday as well but couldn’t find this bird. Noticed the unique call, and Merlin detected it, both days."
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