Swinhoe’s White-eye is on the official California list; it was accepted as established by the CBRC earlier this year and I believe the ABA-CLC will follow the CBRC in its next update. This only applies to the established SoCal population and not to individual independent releases/escapes.
Dispersants from the SoCal population have turned up quite far south in Baja, but most or all Bay Area records very likely relate to independent escapes, as a number (including some of the group that bred in downtown SF) have aviculturists' leg bands.
Marty Freeland
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From: <SFBirds...> <SFBirds...> on behalf of Alvaro Jaramillo via groups.io <chucao...>
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Subject: Re: [SFBirds] Swinhoe
David
I am not in the listing game, but one thing you said confused me. If it is on the official California list, does that not make it countable no matter where in California it is seen?
From: <SFBirds...> <SFBirds...> On Behalf Of David Armstrong via groups.io
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Subject: Re: [SFBirds] Swinhoe
On Monday, August 31, 2026 at 05:15:12 PM PDT, Roberta Guise <roberta...><mailto:<roberta...>> wrote:
This assumes a lot of institutional knowledge and accrued arcana. Alas, some of us are not quite there yet. And perhaps I missed a previous email about this..
What’s Swinhoe?
Where’s the Calliope tree?
Warmly,
Roberta
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