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Where to find California Quail in January
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 California Quail in January. 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			River View Park and Santa Ynez Valley Botanic Garden (Santa Barbara Co.)	21.3	11	19	57.9%	36.3%
2			Lopez Lake	23.9	24	68	35.3%	25.0%
3			Los Flores Ranch Open Space	7.0	3	5	60.0%	23.1%
4			Colson Canyon	16.4	4	8	50.0%	21.5%
5			Vandenberg AFB--north inland (restricted access)	6.3	1	1	100.0%	20.7%
6			Burton Mesa Ecological Reserve	8.8	1	1	100.0%	20.7%
7			Point Sal Trail	10.6	1	1	100.0%	20.7%
8			Black Lake Canyon Wetland Preserve	15.8	1	1	100.0%	20.7%
9			La Purisima Mission State Historic Park	11.9	12	36	33.3%	20.2%
10			Santa Ynez River at Santa Rosa Road	22.2	5	13	38.5%	17.7%
11			Los Alamos Park	12.6	11	40	27.5%	16.1%
12			San Miguelito Road at Sudden Road	18.9	3	7	42.9%	15.8%
13			Biddle County Park	23.3	8	35	22.9%	12.1%
14			Huasna Road	19.5	2	5	40.0%	11.8%
15			Pismo Preserve	24.2	5	22	22.7%	10.1%
16			Vandenberg Space Force Base (formerly VAFB)--Lake Canyon Ponds (restricted access)	9.3	1	2	50.0%	9.5%
17			VSFB--Cocheo Park (restricted access)	8.7	1	2	50.0%	9.5%
18			Jalama Road--Jalama Beach to Jalama Saddle	22.8	2	8	25.0%	7.1%
19			Miguelito County Park	17.4	5	33	15.2%	6.7%
20			Mission Hills WTP	11.0	2	9	22.2%	6.3%
21			Sweeney Rd. pullout	14.3	1	3	33.3%	6.1%
22			Zaca Station Rd.	20.4	5	39	12.8%	5.6%
23			Nipomo Regional Park	13.2	1	4	25.0%	4.6%
24			Foxen Canyon Rd. (north of Zaca Canyon Rd. crossing)	20.5	1	4	25.0%	4.6%
25			Orcutt Trail East--Black Oak and Brodie Trails	3.3	1	4	25.0%	4.6%
26			Mitchell Road, Santa Maria	3.1	2	14	14.3%	4.0%
27			lower Figueroa Mountain Rd. (between SR 154 and Birabent Cyn.)	22.6	2	15	13.3%	3.7%
28			Vandenberg AFB--Triangle Pond	6.2	2	18	11.1%	3.1%
29			Jack O'Connell Park	10.9	5	74	6.8%	2.9%
30			Oso Flaco Lake (not for beach/ocean)	15.8	16	356	4.5%	2.8%
31			Hans Christian Andersen Park	24.6	1	7	14.3%	2.6%
32			Orcutt Community Park	2.1	1	9	11.1%	2.0%
33			River Park (SBA Co.)	13.2	2	28	7.1%	2.0%
34			Shell Beach	24.8	1	10	10.0%	1.8%
35			Barka Slough	5.3	1	10	10.0%	1.8%
36			Pioneer Park	2.7	1	11	9.1%	1.6%
37			Santa Maria River Estuary (SBA Co.)	13.6	2	50	4.0%	1.1%
38			Pismo SB--Oceano Campground	20.6	4	209	1.9%	0.7%
39			Jalama Beach County Park	23.2	1	29	3.4%	0.6%
40			Santa Maria Country Club (restricted access)	4.4	1	34	2.9%	0.5%
41			Santa Maria Mesa Road Ponds	10.6	1	35	2.9%	0.5%
42			Ocean Beach County Park	13.3	2	146	1.4%	0.4%
43			Oceano County Park	20.4	1	71	1.4%	0.2%
44			Meadow Creek/Monarch Butterfly Preserve	22.1	1	102	1.0%	0.2%