Date: 4/30/25 8:29 pm From: rohit.bose95 via groups.io <rohit.bose95...> Subject: Re: [southbaybirds] Swinhoe's White-Eye, San Jose (S Third St & Martha St) #rba
I was the Sunnyvale sighting! Glad to see that I’m not alone anymore :)
Just a heads up, a reviewer actually reached out to me in mid-April (my sighting was Feb 25) with the feedback that my footage was not sufficient to assert the species level, and I was instructed to revise it to “Zosterops sp.”. My overall memory of the bird was a reasonably confident Swinhoe’s due to the high level of contrast between the green-olive back and various lemon-yellow parts, but of course it would be great if someone could gather conclusive evidence.
Here is the revised/annotated checklist from February in case anyone’s interested:
Do not disclose information that identifies the location of nesting birds of any species, to minimize stress on the nesting birds and the risk of vandalism or abuse.
