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Allen's Hummingbird
Selasphorus sasin
Spring
and summer visitor [January - September] of residential gardens and oak
and riparian woodlands of the coastal plain. [It is difficult to
distinguish female and immature Allen's from Rufous Hummingbirds which
are fairly common spring migrants.]
Some of the
best
Central Coast birding sites to find it are:
San
Luis Obispo County:
Montana del Oro State
Park
Oceano Campground
Oso Flaco Lake [nests]
Santa
Barbara County:
La Purisima
Mission
Stowe House at Lake Los Carneros
Santa Barbara Botanical Garden
Rancho Guadalupe Dunes [nests in roadside willows]
Ventura
County:
Pt. Magu State Park
Arroyo Verde City Park
McGrath State Beach campground
Camino Real Park
For information on this bird, visit:
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