Date: 10/29/26 10:17 am From: eBird alert via groups.io <alert.ebird...> Subject: [sbcobirding] [eBird Alert] Santa Barbara County Rare Bird Alert
*** Species Summary:
- Bar-tailed Godwit (1 report)
- Elegant Tern (2 reports)
- Tropical Kingbird (2 reports)
- Clark's Nutcracker (1 report)
- Red Crossbill (Ponderosa Pine or type 2) (3 reports)
- Red Crossbill (4 reports)
- Hepatic Tanager (1 report)
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Elegant Tern (Thalasseus elegans) (11)
- Reported Oct 27, 2026 13:26 by Alexander Lange
- San Pedro Point, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.52073&<ll...>,-119.52073 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S406173991 - Comments: "Will add photos, group of 7 perched simultaneously on a rock while the rest flew overhead. All out of breeding plumage, large orange bill with a "bald patch" of white breaking up the black cap."
Elegant Tern (Thalasseus elegans) (11)
- Reported Oct 27, 2026 13:26 by Adrianna Espinosa
- San Pedro Point, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.52073&<ll...>,-119.52073 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S406173992 - Comments: "Will add photos, group of 7 perched simultaneously on a rock while the rest flew overhead. All out of breeding plumage, large orange bill with a "bald patch" of white breaking up the black cap."
Tropical Kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus)
- Reported Oct 28, 2026 13:55 by Dennis Doordan
- UCSB North Campus Open Space (formerly Ocean Meadows Golf Course), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8792197&<ll...>,-119.8792197 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S406183787 - Comments: "Merlin confirmed the ID. Large bird, bright yellow chest, dark ear patch; larger and brighter yellow the the Cassin Kingbird nearby. Perched at the top of tree overlooking Whittier Pond."
Red Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) (1)
- Reported Oct 28, 2026 08:01 by Armando Aispuro
- 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/S406128290 - Comments: "Chunky, heavy headed finch in flight with dark plumage (barely perceptible as red) and dark wings flying once in a circle near the eastern end of the cypress row at COPR (34.4129605, -119.8783396). Flight was sinusoidal, flapping rapidly, dropping and repeating. Told by diagnostic flight call, generally repeated as a double jip-jip, followed by a triplet jip-jip-jip. Seemed interested in the lone pine among cypresses and other ornamental trees in this row but flew off to the west while constantly jipping."
Red Crossbill (Ponderosa Pine or type 2) (Loxia curvirostra (type 2)) (10)
- Reported Oct 28, 2026 15:40 by Russ Namitz
- Pine trees-Santa Barbara Canyon Rd, Maricopa US-CA (34.8686,-119.5156), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.515566&<ll...>,-119.515566 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S406182126 - Media: 1 Audio
- Comments: "Mix of males and females. Photos tba. Sounded like the expected Type 2 and spectrogram confirms a downward "lightning bolt" that slants to the right."
Red Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) (8)
- Reported Oct 28, 2026 12:20 by Patty Enger
- UCSB North Campus Open Space (formerly Ocean Meadows Golf Course), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8792197&<ll...>,-119.8792197 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S406157198 - Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Saw several in an Aleppo Pine (this pine tree is about 100 yards west of the Aleppo Pine next to Whittier Pond). At least eight, possibly more. Photos"
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