Date: 6/28/25 3:17 pm From: eBird alert via groups.io <alert.ebird...> Subject: [slocobirding] [eBird Alert] San Luis Obispo County Rare Bird Alert
*** Species Summary:
- Common Merganser (1 report)
- Neotropic Cormorant (2 reports)
- Western Tanager (1 report)
- Indigo Bunting (1 report)
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Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) (1)
- Reported Jun 27, 2025 13:22 by Bob McCay
- Arroyo de la Cruz, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-121.3089323&<ll...>,-121.3089323 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S254670082 - Comments: "At a distance, at first it raised to have a look at me and showed light colored breast. Very poor pics show rusty crest and light patch behind bill and sharp demarcation between rust head and white throat."
Neotropic Cormorant (Nannopterum brasilianum) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Jun 27, 2025 10:14 by Jay Carroll
- Morro Creek mouth, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8624411&<ll...>,-120.8624411 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S254658251 - Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing rarity found by Tom Edell on 9 Jun 25; perched atop a creekside sycamore tree, mainly preening during the brief observation period; similar to Double-crested Cormorant but smaller overall and with smaller gular pouch and sharply angled gape; diagnostic white outline at gape and lower mandible still formative; lores dull brownish orange; photos."
Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Jun 26, 2025 12:22 by Kevin Zimmer
- Harmony Headlands State Park, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-121.0018122&<ll...>,-121.0018122 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S254922376 - Media: 8 Photos
- Comments: "Assumed to be the continuing male bird that was first reported at this spot back in mid-late May when I was either already in Alaska, or preparing to leave for Alaska, and was unable to chase it at the time. I heard of more reports of this bird at this spot while in Alaska, but the last report that I heard of was around the beginning of June, and I'm not aware of any reports since then. When first seen, this bird was feeding on grass seeds just inches above the ground, but soon disappeared, only to resurface 30 minutes or so later, at which time it was singing intermittently. Interestingly, there was a singing male Blue Grosbeak and a singing male Lazuli Bunting within 50-100 m of where the male Indigo Bunting was singing. Nice to score a blue male Passerina hat trick in one spot!"
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