Date: 8/16/25 8:30 am From: eBird alert via groups.io <alert.ebird...> Subject: [sbcobirding] [eBird Alert] Santa Barbara County Rare Bird Alert
*** Species Summary:
- Solitary Sandpiper (1 report)
- California Gull (albertaensis) (2 reports)
- California Gull (californicus) (2 reports)
- Western x Glaucous-winged Gull (hybrid) (2 reports)
- Forster's Tern (4 reports)
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Solitary Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria) (1)
- Reported Aug 13, 2025 16:47 by John Callender
- Lake Jocelyn, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.4772805&<ll...>,-119.4772805 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S267379182 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Continuing bird reported earlier by Spencer Steele. I first observed fly up from the northwest corner of the lake and leave the area flying west. Later I saw an individual at the east end of the lake that could have been the same bird having returned without my seeing it come back."
California Gull (albertaensis) (Larus californicus albertaensis) (1)
- Reported Aug 15, 2025 07:18 by Herb Elliott
- Rancho Guadalupe Dunes Preserve, including Santa Maria River Estuary (SBA Co.), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6473815&<ll...>,-120.6473815 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S267484662 - Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "*Rare but probably regular over-summerer. KH has been studying variation in CAGU and their ssp for several years. Fairly typical 2nd-cycle. Large, pale, streaky, long-winged and legged CAGU. New scaps very pale like AHGU. Shallow forehead, etc."
California Gull (albertaensis) (Larus californicus albertaensis) (1)
- Reported Aug 15, 2025 07:18 by Reef Comer
- Rancho Guadalupe Dunes Preserve, including Santa Maria River Estuary (SBA Co.), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6473815&<ll...>,-120.6473815 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S267488873 - Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "*Rare but probably regular over-summerer. KH has been studying variation in CAGU and their ssp for several years. Fairly typical 2nd-cycle. Large, pale, streaky, long-winged and legged CAGU. New scaps very pale like AHGU. Shallow forehead, etc."
Western x Glaucous-winged Gull (hybrid) (Larus occidentalis x glaucescens) (1)
- Reported Aug 15, 2025 07:18 by Reef Comer
- Rancho Guadalupe Dunes Preserve, including Santa Maria River Estuary (SBA Co.), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6473815&<ll...>,-120.6473815 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S267488873 - Comments: "*Rare but likely summer. Odd almost Slaty-backish chocolatey 2nd-cyc. Structurally odd, massive bulbous bill, and uniform wing coverts."
Western x Glaucous-winged Gull (hybrid) (Larus occidentalis x glaucescens) (1)
- Reported Aug 15, 2025 07:18 by Herb Elliott
- Rancho Guadalupe Dunes Preserve, including Santa Maria River Estuary (SBA Co.), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6473815&<ll...>,-120.6473815 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S267484662 - Comments: "*Rare but likely summer. Odd almost Slaty-backish chocolatey 2nd-cyc. Structurally odd, massive bulbous bill, and uniform wing coverts."
Forster's Tern (Sterna forsteri) (1)
- Reported Aug 15, 2025 09:26 by Mario Ramos
- 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/S267423565 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Continuing: in non-breeding plumage standing on the shore at Mission Creek outflow next to another tern. White forehead with black eye-mask, pale gray upperparts, and white underparts."
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