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Blue-footed Booby (Sula nebouxii) (1)
- Reported Oct 13, 2026 12:30 by Jonathan Dowell
- Sutil Island, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.0473772&<ll...>,-119.0473772 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S402125508 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing on the cliff face of Booby colony, overlooking water between Sutil and Santa Barbara Island. Streaked neck, dark wings, light chest and belly, blue-gray feet. Please see photos."
Broad-winged Hawk (Buteo platypterus) (1)
- Reported Oct 13, 2026 07:50 by Sarang Gopalakrishnan
- UCSB--Campus Lagoon, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.845165&<ll...>,-119.845165 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S402031997 - Comments: "Seen very clearly, perched on a tree by the lagoon, looked like other broad-wings I've seen. Dark face and back, basically black, a bit of a malar stripe, streaky underside with some white, stripes on the underside of tail."
Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Oct 13, 2026 11:31 by Craig Prater
- Mission Creek outflow, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.6869361&<ll...>,-119.6869361 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S402068515 - Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing. Moving around from the mouth of the outflow to just south of the skate park. Saw lots of these in Brazil in July, a treat to see one in SB. Photos to be uploaded."
Clark's Nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana) (127) CONFIRMED
- Reported Oct 13, 2026 07:37 by Nancy Baron
- La Cumbre Peak, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.7147721&<ll...>,-119.7147721 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S402060334 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "8:55 flock of 23 flying high; single bird in dead pine:19 flying over road: 60 flying over lookout at summit; cluster of 9 soon after (11:28)15 more. Hard to know if the same birds are circling around z movement appeared to be east to west."
White-crowned Sparrow (pugetensis) (Zonotrichia leucophrys pugetensis) (25) CONFIRMED
- Reported Oct 12, 2026 11:39 by Robert Hamilton
- Santa Rosa Island--Historic Ranch Area, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.051646&<ll...>,-120.051646 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S402046134 - Media: 11 Photos
- Comments: "RAE: All but one White-crown seen well (and heard singing) seemed to clearly be pugetensis; such a concentration was unreported by Collins et al. (2026)
RAH: Agree that the appearance and songs of nearly all of the WCSP we encountered were consistent with pugetensis. Photos of several of these, plus at least one apparent gambelii. A handful were unidentified to ssp."
Palm Warbler (Setophaga palmarum) (1)
- Reported Oct 13, 2026 17:40 by Zach Nett
- Mission Creek outflow, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.6869361&<ll...>,-119.6869361 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S402142392 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "relocated on the south side of the slough, tail-bobbin around the halophytes. brown warbler with dark eyeline, chest streaking, and yellow patterning. eventually flew off towards the skatepark isocoma and didn’t return."
Palm Warbler (Setophaga palmarum) (1)
- Reported Oct 13, 2026 11:31 by Craig Prater
- Mission Creek outflow, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.6869361&<ll...>,-119.6869361 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S402068515 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Was right by the bike path bridge over the outflow channel on and around the flood control structure. Foraging near ground level on both side of the channel. Got chased away by at one point by a Black Phoebe but persisted in this area. I got several good looks that were consistent with the Palm Warbler, including tail bobbing, foraging at ground level, dull brown body with yellow on body and tail coverts and the long pale eyebrow. Photos were difficult to get because it was often foraging below and behind the chainlink fence, but I got one (attached) when it briefly perched on the building top."
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