Date: 8/30/26 8:42 am
From: eBird alert via groups.io <alert.ebird...>
Subject: [sbcobirding] [eBird Alert] Santa Barbara County Rare Bird Alert
*** Species Summary:

- Craveri's Murrelet (1 report)
- Caspian Tern (4 reports)
- Black-footed Albatross (1 report)
- Black Storm-Petrel (1 report)
- Black-vented Shearwater (1 report)
- Cocos Booby (1 report)
- Vermilion Flycatcher (1 report)

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Craveri's Murrelet (Synthliboramphus craveri) (2) CONFIRMED
- Reported Aug 28, 2026 09:57 by Joel Barrett
- Offshore--northern Santa Cruz Basin, south of Santa Cruz Island (SBA Co.), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.6630859&<ll...>,-119.6630859
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S388107653
- Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Poor photos show dark spur on neck/breast."

Caspian Tern (Hydroprogne caspia) (4)
- Reported Aug 27, 2026 09:00 by Jim Chiropolos
- Santa Cruz Island--Scorpion Anchorage and Beach Area, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.5555481&<ll...>,-119.5555481
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S388124391
- Comments: "Large terns feeding on bait ball"

Caspian Tern (Hydroprogne caspia) (5) CONFIRMED
- Reported Aug 28, 2026 06:30 by Jim Chiropolos
- Santa Cruz Island--Scorpion Canyon Campgrounds, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.5645389&<ll...>,-119.5645389
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S388122015
- Comments: "I sound like a broken record- Caspian terns - only royal terns I saw were in Ventura harbor"

Caspian Tern (Hydroprogne caspia) (4)
- Reported Aug 27, 2026 06:40 by Jim Chiropolos
- Santa Cruz Island--Scorpion Canyon Campgrounds, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.5645389&<ll...>,-119.5645389
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S388121457
- Comments: "Caspian terms were the common term here - big dagger bills….

Did not see royals here"

Caspian Tern (Hydroprogne caspia) (3)
- Reported Aug 26, 2026 10:30 by Jim Chiropolos
- Santa Cruz Island--Scorpion Canyon Campgrounds, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.5645389&<ll...>,-119.5645389
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S388120536
- Comments: "The big common tern on this trip here - not royal tern. Big dagger bills…."

Black-footed Albatross (Phoebastria nigripes) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Aug 28, 2026 12:17 by Joel Barrett
- San Miguel / Santa Rosa passage (SBA Co.), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.2728271&<ll...>,-120.2728271
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S388107489
- Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Flying into the wind around many Pink-footed Shearwaters. My first in the SB Channel."

Black Storm-Petrel (Hydrobates melania) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Aug 28, 2026 12:17 by Joel Barrett
- San Miguel / Santa Rosa passage (SBA Co.), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.2728271&<ll...>,-120.2728271
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S388107489
- Comments: "This summer these are everywhere. Large dark SP with easy going wingbeats."

Black-vented Shearwater (Puffinus opisthomelas) (2) CONFIRMED
- Reported Aug 28, 2026 12:17 by Joel Barrett
- San Miguel / Santa Rosa passage (SBA Co.), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.2728271&<ll...>,-120.2728271
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S388107489
- Comments: "Small black/brown shearwaters with white underside and dark bill. Smaller than more numerous Pink-foot’s."

Cocos Booby (Sula brewsteri) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Aug 28, 2026 09:57 by Joel Barrett
- Offshore--northern Santa Cruz Basin, south of Santa Cruz Island (SBA Co.), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.6630859&<ll...>,-119.6630859
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S388107653
- Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Brown colored booby with white belly and underwings. Photos."

Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Aug 27, 2026 06:40 by Jim Chiropolos
- Santa Cruz Island--Scorpion Canyon Campgrounds, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.5645389&<ll...>,-119.5645389
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S388121457
- Media: 5 Photos
- Comments: "In opening between upper and lower campground where all logs are stacked. Immature bird flycatching and wagging tail - in between size of black Phoebe and western flycatcher which I perched next too. Watched it for 1:2 hour figuring out If

See picturrs"

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