THE CREAGRUS
CALIFORNIA LIST
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all photos & text by Don Roberson
all photos taken in California
SUMMER TANAGER Piranga rubra
|
singing male on territory
7 July 2002 at Morongo Valley SBE |
The SUMMER TANAGER is a scarce & local breeder in extensive
interior riparian areas of southern California. I've seen it as a breeder
at Morongo Valley SBE, China Ranch INY, and Kern River Reserve KER. Annually,
there are spring vagrants (mostly at inland oases) and fall vagrants along
the coast,; more in southern California than in the north. A few winter
annually, mostly in planted exotic vegetation (e.g., eucalyptus) along
the coast. Some of the vagrants, both in spring and fall, are likely of
the nominate race from eastern North America. Our breeding population,
and some vagrants, are of the southwestern race cooperi.
Most of my California records are listed below; I do not include those
at regular breeding locales. Those preceded by H
were
found or co-found by me personally; those preceded by
K
receive
some partial credit (e.g., I was involved in sorting out i.d. of a previously
discovered bird or refound a vagrant that had been thought to have left).
These are my personal Summer Tanager records:
| 6/3/74 |
Deep Springs INY |
molting male |
| 5/23/76 |
Deep Springs INY |
male |
| 5/24/77 |
Furnace Creek INY |
female |
| 5/24-26/77 |
Deep Springs INY |
female |
| 5/24/77 |
Oasis MNO |
1st yr male |
| 5/28-31/77 |
Deep Springs INY |
female |
| 10/29-30/77 |
Stovepipe Wells INY |
imm male |
| H 5/20-21/79 |
Ft. Piute SBE |
female |
| 1/6/81 |
Pacific Grove MTY |
female-plumaged bird at Short & Granite; description in my notes |
| H 7/6/85 |
Pacific Grove MTY |
calling female in my backyard |
| 5/26/86 |
Oasis MNO |
imm male; details in my notes |
| 8/27/90 |
Del Rey Oaks MTY |
first summer male; description in my notes |
| 5/28/95 |
Ft. Piute SBE |
female |
| H 11/6/96 |
Carmel R. mouth MTY |
imm male; brief details in my notes |
| H 9/21/98 |
Big Sur R. mouth MTY |
imm calling in headlands patch |
| 9/6/00 |
Carmel R. mouth MTY |
adult male |
See the family page for county abbreviations. All photos & text ©
2003 Don Roberson; all rights reserved.
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research is granted, and serious researchers in general are granted permission
to use the records cited herein.
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