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Continuing White-winged Dove today, always a good bird for coastal SoCal and my county. I accidentally deleted my very poor photos, so I’ll try and get one tomorrow. County bird #294.

Either a county year bird Common Ground Dove, or a state(and county) bird White-winged Dove. Honestly, even though the WWDO is flagged as rare and the CGDO isn’t, the CGDO may actually be the better bird.

https://ebird.org/checklist/S139775177

Just a word of caution here for everyone. While it may seem fanatics that we can now add 20 photos per species, I don’t encourage people to do so unless: It’s a really rare bird, or your photos are absolutely amazing. If that’s not the case, don’t upload 20 photos per species. There is no need for that unless one of the two criteria above are met. Doing so would just clog up valuable space in ebird and the Macaulay library.

Yes. Remember location and date.

I wasn’t criticizing your description, as a matter of fact I thought it was quite good. I just thought that as the topic was brought up, I’d post that link for everyone to read.

I’m just putting this out there for everyone to read, not specifically you: https://support.ebird.org/en/support/solutions/articles/48000803130-how-to-document-your-sightings

Looks more like a LBHE to me

Ridiculous.

Along with the other descriptions, obviously.

Nice! When a bird is a continuing rarity, consider writing “continuing bird” in the species comments so other know.

self found or a continuing bird?

Personally, I think the linked photo below is the better photo by far, if you cropped it a little better. https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/578884031

@Aidan B, @AlexHenry, @DLecy

Yes