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Where to find Brown Pelican in August
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 August. 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			Margo Dodd Park	24.4	19	19	100.0%	83.2%
2			Oso Flaco Creek Mouth/Beach	16.4	73	89	82.0%	72.8%
3			Santa Maria River Estuary (SBA Co.)	13.6	84	105	80.0%	71.4%
4			Pismo Creek mouth	22.5	70	94	74.5%	64.8%
5			Pismo Beach Pier	22.9	25	31	80.6%	63.7%
6			Ocean Beach County Park	13.3	156	234	66.7%	60.4%
7			Arroyo Grande Creek mouth	20.1	51	79	64.6%	53.6%
8			Pismo Beach--town area	23.1	7	8	87.5%	52.9%
9			Pismo SB--Grand Ave. access	21.7	11	14	78.6%	52.4%
10			Santa Maria River Estuary (SLO Co.)	13.8	21	30	70.0%	52.1%
11			Pismo Beach Clay Tennis Counts	24.0	10	13	76.9%	49.7%
12			Shell Beach	24.8	9	12	75.0%	46.8%
13			Surf Beach	13.9	14	21	66.7%	45.4%
14			Vandenberg AFB--Point Pedernales (restricted access)	19.6	3	3	100.0%	43.8%
15			Jalama Beach County Park	23.2	9	13	69.2%	42.4%
16			Pier Ave beach entrance	20.5	5	7	71.4%	35.9%
17			Vandenberg SFB--Wall Beach (restricted access)	12.5	2	2	100.0%	34.2%
18			Vandenberg SFB--Seal Beach (restricted access)	11.9	2	2	100.0%	34.2%
19			Pismo SB--North Beach Campground	22.2	4	6	66.7%	30.0%
20			Vandenberg AFB--Brown Beach to south of Lion Head (restricted access)	9.6	2	3	66.7%	20.8%
21			Vandenberg SFB--Trestle Beach (restricted access)	19.2	1	1	100.0%	20.7%
22			Vandenberg SFB (restricted access)--Boathouse	21.7	1	1	100.0%	20.7%
23			Oceano Dunes SVRA	18.0	11	32	34.4%	20.4%
24			Meadow Creek/Monarch Butterfly Preserve	22.1	4	16	25.0%	10.2%
25			Arroyo Grande Creek-Lower	19.7	1	2	50.0%	9.5%
26			Oso Flaco Lake (not for beach/ocean)	15.8	36	347	10.4%	7.6%
27			Pismo Preserve	24.2	2	17	11.8%	3.3%
28			Pismo SB--Oceano Campground	20.6	6	182	3.3%	1.5%
29			Oceano County Park	20.4	1	44	2.3%	0.4%