Date: 11/3/26 10:36 am From: eBird alert via main <alert.ebird...> Subject: [sbcobirding] [eBird Alert] Santa Barbara County Rare Bird Alert
*** Species Summary:
- Common Gallinule (6 reports)
- Bar-tailed Godwit (1 report)
- Western Cattle-Egret (1 report)
- Vermilion Flycatcher (2 reports)
- Tropical Kingbird (5 reports)
- Cassin's Finch (1 report)
- Red Crossbill (6 reports)
- Red Crossbill (Ponderosa Pine or type 2) (2 reports)
- Hooded Oriole (2 reports)
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Common Gallinule (Gallinula galeata) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Nov 02, 2026 15:19 by Philip Zeng
- 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/S407619387 - Media: 6 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing at Whitter pond, reported by Mario in the morning. An immature Common Gallinule with a pale gray face and body, lacking the bright red bill and frontal shield of adults. Thick, dark yellow legs. Photos"
Common Gallinule (Gallinula galeata) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Nov 02, 2026 10:43 by Mario Ramos
- 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/S407571092 - Comments: "Overall plumage brownish-gray, with a pale grayish-brown face and neck, brown upperparts photos to follow. (34.4217232, -119.8733406)"
Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Nov 02, 2026 14:15 by Alistair Skinner
- Isla Vista Beach (between Devereux Beach and Goleta Point), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8624379&<ll...>,-119.8624379 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S407639061 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Continuing. Smaller, paler, with long bill. With small MAGO flock 1/10th mile South of Embarcadero steps. Tide coming in fast."
Western Cattle-Egret (Ardea ibis) (1)
- Reported Nov 02, 2026 07:48 by KEVIN LUCAS 🕊👀🚵
- 1465 San Leandro Park Road, Montecito, California, US (34.424, -119.633), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.6329617&<ll...>,-119.6329617 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S407654112 - Comments: "Small white egret with yellow bill, yellow upper legs. Nice contrast with Snowy Egret we'd seen a half hour earlier. I didn't realize it would be flagged rare here & now, or I would have taken phone photo, as I did of SNEG. We we're quite close. First time I've seen one right at the ocean, rather than in a field, and maybe the first time I've seen one by itself."
Tropical Kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Oct 31, 2026 09:00 by Yulia Sekushina
- Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve (parent hotspot, if possible, use more specific hotspot), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8799569&<ll...>,-119.8799569 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S407555248 - Comments: "A distinctive yellow breast extending up to the throat. A high-pitched sound, which was picked up and confirmed as Tropical Kingbird on two separate Merlin apps."
Tropical Kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus) (1)
- Reported Nov 02, 2026 12:45 by Libby Patten
- 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/S407639034 - Comments: "Thick dark bill, bright yellow belly and yellow although duller up to base of neck, dark eye patch. Will add photo. On small tree on north side of Whittier pond."
Cassin's Finch (Haemorhous cassinii) (4)
- Reported Nov 02, 2026 14:11 by Luke Jensen
- Allan Hancock College, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.4205418&<ll...>,-120.4205418 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S407627051 - Comments: "*Very rare, continuing finches in the same group of trees as before. My suspicion were confirmed that there are actually 2 females and 2 males here. looked back at pics from yesterday and saw that I had a picture of 2 female Cassin's finches and another of 2 male Cassin's finches. All 4 seen at once today. pics tba"
Red Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) (70)
- Reported Nov 02, 2026 14:11 by Luke Jensen
- Allan Hancock College, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.4205418&<ll...>,-120.4205418 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S407627051 - Comments: "Many crossbills cycling through my time there. flock of 26 confirmed on the camera and a flock that was about twice the size flew in and out of the pines too. also small flocks throughout my time there. there was a continued presence of them until about the last 10 minutes we were there. Got awesome views of them on the ground. 1 was on the ground 2 feet away!!! This count is probably an under estimate."
Red Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) (5) CONFIRMED
- Reported Nov 02, 2026 15:06 by Bernadette and Amante Mangaser
- UCSB--campus, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8450041&<ll...>,-119.8450041 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S407624625 - Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Seen on a Pine tree north of Storke Tower Carillon, where another birder saw them earlier this afternoon. Just had a couple of minutes to take photos before they flew south toward the Lagoon."
Red Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) (20) CONFIRMED
- Reported Nov 02, 2026 14:05 by Anna Kronberg
- UCSB--campus, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8450041&<ll...>,-119.8450041 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S407608114 - Comments: "Conspicuous flock of at least 20 landed in the top of pine tree just behind Storke Tower. Naturally no camera with me but red and yellow clearly visible on heads/breasts of birds foraging on pine cones."
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