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We need end of season breeding bird records

Mark Holmgren
 

Hi All,

Thank you so much for what you have done so far by contributing to the Breeding Bird Study.  

The timing of our Santa Barbara County bird breeding season looks like this.

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 We are in Week 32.  Not done yet.  Please offer us your late season breeding observations.  

Those help to define the late breeding dates for many species.  And, they tell us where birds 

are able to breed in this awful drought.  These may be the areas we want to nurture and protect 

so that they are in condition to help birds get through our next drought.

Submit at: https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/f6fdd9f0a1d94146a9640e1dd53cf503

 

We have records of 85 species breeding in/after Week 32.  Here are the 10 most frequent.  

The full list is below.

Scaly-breasted Munia

Hooded Oriole

Lesser Goldfinch

California Towhee

Clark's Grebe

White-tailed Kite

Acorn Woodpecker

California Quail

Northern Mockingbird

House Finch

 

View the webmap and play with the data at https://tinyurl.com/yxntz67t

 

Mark Holmgren

San Marcos Pass

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Species 

# of Records

Scaly-breasted Munia

31

Hooded Oriole

25

Lesser Goldfinch

21

California Towhee

19

Clark's Grebe

18

White-tailed Kite

18

Acorn Woodpecker

16

California Quail

16

Northern Mockingbird

14

House Finch

12

Band-tailed Pigeon

11

Western Grebe

11

Dark-eyed Junco

10

Great-tailed Grackle

10

Barn Swallow

9

House Sparrow

9

Song Sparrow

9

Spotted Towhee

9

Cliff Swallow

8

Eurasian Collared-Dove

8

Ruddy Duck

8

Pacific-slope Flycatcher

7

American Robin

6

Western Bluebird

6

American Goldfinch

5

Rock Pigeon

5

American Coot

4

Black Phoebe

4

Brown-headed Cowbird

4

California Scrub-Jay

4

Common Yellowthroat

4

Pied-billed Grebe

4

Warbling Vireo

4

Western Wood-Pewee

4

Yellow Warbler

4

Black Oystercatcher

3

Brown Booby

3

Eared Grebe

3

Elegant Tern

3

Gadwall

3

Mourning Dove

3

Western Kingbird

3

White-crowned Sparrow

3

Belding's Savannah Sparrow

2

Black-chinned Hummingbird

2

Bullock's Oriole

2

Cassin's Kingbird

2

Great Blue Heron

2

Mallard

2

Western Gull

2

White-throated Swift

2

Wrentit

2

Allen's Hummingbird

1

American Crow

1

American Kestrel

1

Ash-throated Flycatcher

1

Bald Eagle

1

Black-necked Stilt

1

Brandt's Cormorant

1

Canada Goose

1

Caspian Tern

1

Common Gallinule

1

Golden Eagle

1

Great Horned Owl

1

Green Heron

1

Horned Lark

1

Hutton's Vireo

1

Killdeer

1

Lazuli Bunting

1

Least Bittern

1

Least Tern

1

Nuttall's Woodpecker

1

Oak Titmouse

1

Orange-crowned Warbler

1

Peregrine Falcon

1

Pigeon Guillemot

1

Purple Finch

1

Purple Martin

1

Red-tailed Hawk

1

Redhead

1

Savannah Sparrow

1

Snowy Plover

1

Steller's Jay

1

Tree Swallow

1

Western Screech-Owl

1

White-breasted Nuthatch

1

Wild Turkey

1

Willow Flycatcher

1
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