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Where to find Brown Pelican in December
within 25 miles of Santa Barbara County, CA, USA

This page shows which locations in the selected region historically had the highest probability of a checklist including Brown Pelican in December. Because some locations may be undersampled, the results are sorted based on a confidence score which takes into account how many samples are available. The bar chart shows how the probability of observing this species varies over the year.

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Rank	Map	Pics	Location	Distance	Observed	Sampled	Frequency	Confidence
1			Santa Maria River Estuary (SBA Co.)	13.6	51	66	77.3%	65.8%
2			Margo Dodd Park	24.4	15	17	88.2%	65.7%
3			Jalama Beach County Park	23.2	13	16	81.2%	57.0%
4			Santa Maria River Estuary (SLO Co.)	13.8	4	4	100.0%	51.0%
5			Pismo Beach Pier	22.9	21	33	63.6%	46.6%
6			Oso Flaco Creek Mouth/Beach	16.4	14	22	63.6%	43.0%
7			Pismo Creek mouth	22.5	55	111	49.5%	40.4%
8			Surf Beach	13.9	7	10	70.0%	39.7%
9			Vandenberg AFB--Surf Beach to Point Pedernales (restricted access)	16.7	4	5	80.0%	37.6%
10			Vandenberg AFB--Point Arguello (restricted access)	21.4	2	2	100.0%	34.2%
11			Ocean Beach County Park	13.3	54	143	37.8%	30.2%
12			Pismo Beach Clay Tennis Counts	24.0	3	4	75.0%	30.1%
13			Vandenberg AFB--Point Pedernales (restricted access)	19.6	2	3	66.7%	20.8%
14			Vandenberg SFB (restricted access)--Boathouse	21.7	1	1	100.0%	20.7%
15			Vandenberg SFB (restricted access)--Minuteman Beach	8.6	1	1	100.0%	20.7%
16			Vandenberg AFB--Brown Beach to south of Lion Head (restricted access)	9.6	4	9	44.4%	18.9%
17			Pismo SB--Grand Ave. access	21.7	10	31	32.3%	18.6%
18			Oceano Dunes SVRA	18.0	5	13	38.5%	17.7%
19			Arroyo Grande Creek mouth	20.1	5	15	33.3%	15.2%
20			Shell Beach	24.8	4	11	36.4%	15.2%
21			Vandenberg SFB--Trestle Beach (restricted access)	19.2	1	2	50.0%	9.5%
22			Meadow Creek/Monarch Butterfly Preserve	22.1	9	55	16.4%	8.9%
23			Pier Ave beach entrance	20.5	2	7	28.6%	8.2%
24			Oso Flaco Lake (not for beach/ocean)	15.8	18	170	10.6%	6.8%
25			Pismo Beach--town area	23.1	2	9	22.2%	6.3%
26			Pismo Preserve	24.2	1	5	20.0%	3.6%
27			Point Sal Trail	10.6	1	6	16.7%	3.0%
28			Pismo SB--North Beach Campground	22.2	1	13	7.7%	1.4%
29			Oceano County Park	20.4	1	29	3.4%	0.6%