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Santa Barbara Audubon Society
A Chapter of the National Audubon Society
3rd Annual Carpinteria Christmas Bird Count!
Sunday December 18, 2011
In... CARPINTERIA, of Course!
The third annual Carpinteria Christmas Bird Count will take place on Sunday, December 18, 2011. Our count circle runs from Fernald Point to Rincon and from Old Man Mountain to off-shore. We hope to better the 146 species tallied last year during our second count. All birders, experienced and novice are welcome. A pot-luck compilation dinner will follow in the evening, at the clubhouse of the Silver Sands Mobile Home Park, 349 Ash Ave., Carpinteria.
Contact Rob Denholtz (phone: 805-684-4060) and let us know whether you'll be joining us.
Please check the list below to help us locate some of our more elusive birds before the count.
Rob Denholtz has put together a sheet of tips for identifying our local adult gulls and terns in non-breeding plumage. You can download it here.
Help Us Locate These Birds Before the Count
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Cattle Egret Blue-winged Teal Greater Scaup Mountain Quail Common Moorhen Virginia Rail Black-necked Stilt Lesser Yellowlegs Long-billed Curlew Common Snipe Thayer's Gull Greater Roadrunner Owls other than Great Horned White-throated Swift Hummingbirds other than Anna's Sapsuckers other than Red-breasted |
Horned Lark any Swallows Rock or Winter Wrens Common Raven Phainopepla Nashville Warbler Black-throated Gray Warbler Yellow Warbler Hermit Warbler Wilson's Warbler any Tanagers any Grosbeaks Lark Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Tri-colored Blackbird any Orioles Lawrence's Goldfinch |
Any montane species such as: Mountain Chickadee Red-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Townsend's Solitaire Varied Thrush Pine Siskin Cassin's Finch |
