*** Species Summary:

- Craveri's Murrelet (2 reports)
- Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (1 report)
- MacGillivray's Warbler (1 report)

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Craveri's Murrelet (Synthliboramphus craveri) (2)
- Reported May 16, 2023 16:00 by Katie Smith
- Santa Barbara Channel (birds at sea only), Channel Islands National Park, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=34.1179353 ,-119.5191479&ll=34.1179353,-119.5191479
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S138437155
- Comments: "I also had two this morning on the way out to Santa Cruz Island. Two small black and white murrelets with no white in front of eyes, long, thin bills, gray underwings (not white)."

Craveri's Murrelet (Synthliboramphus craveri) (2)
- Reported May 16, 2023 09:15 by Katie Smith
- Santa Barbara Channel (birds at sea only), Channel Islands National Park, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=34.1179353 ,-119.5191479&ll=34.1179353,-119.5191479
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S138437126
- Comments: "Small alcids with blackish upperparts and white underparts. Fairly long, thin bills, white eye arcs, no white in front of eye (eliminating GUMU). Grayish underwings (not white) eliminates SCMU."

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (Nyctanassa violacea) (1)
- Reported May 18, 2023 19:11 by Lauren Rivera
- East Beach, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=34.4158318 ,-119.6733427&ll=34.4158318,-119.6733427
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S138323638
- Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Brownish heron, with the shape of a night heron with long neck extended and head shape of Yellow-crowned"

MacGillivray's Warbler (Geothlypis tolmiei) (1)
- Reported May 19, 2023 11:32 by David Houle
- Santa Cruz Island--Prisoners Harbor, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=34.0187319 ,-119.6821404&ll=34.0187319,-119.6821404
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S138434192
- Comments: "grey head, yellowy-green upperparts. greeny yellow underparts. broken eye ring making parentheses above and below eye. darkline in front of and behind eye. along road east of marsh"

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