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Where to find Purple Finch in May
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 Purple Finch in May. 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			Miguelito County Park	17.4	38	46	82.6%	69.3%
2			Colson Canyon	16.4	17	21	81.0%	60.0%
3			Barka Slough	5.3	37	76	48.7%	37.8%
4			Vandenberg AFB--Triangle Pond	6.2	11	19	57.9%	36.3%
5			Huasna Road	19.5	6	9	66.7%	35.4%
6			Santa Ynez River at Santa Rosa Road	22.2	9	17	52.9%	31.0%
7			Burton Mesa Ecological Reserve	8.8	4	6	66.7%	30.0%
8			Pismo SB--Oceano Campground	20.6	68	210	32.4%	26.4%
9			Brown Road at Corralitos Canyon	10.3	5	10	50.0%	23.7%
10			Vandenberg AFB--Honda Creek (restricted access)	19.1	2	3	66.7%	20.8%
11			Black Lake Canyon Wetland Preserve	15.8	2	3	66.7%	20.8%
12			Upper Lopez Canyon Rd.	24.7	1	1	100.0%	20.7%
13			VSFB--Cocheo Park (restricted access)	8.7	1	1	100.0%	20.7%
14			Sweeney Rd. pullout	14.3	3	6	50.0%	18.8%
15			Vandenberg Village--golf course The Mission Club (restricted)	9.1	5	13	38.5%	17.7%
16			Pismo Preserve	24.2	8	27	29.6%	15.9%
17			Waller Park	4.2	8	32	25.0%	13.3%
18			Biddle County Park	23.3	9	42	21.4%	11.7%
19			Vandenberg Space Force Base (formerly VAFB)--Lake Canyon Ponds (restricted access)	9.3	1	2	50.0%	9.5%
20			Lopez Lake	23.9	7	43	16.3%	8.1%
21			Strother Park	20.5	2	8	25.0%	7.1%
22			Jalama Road	23.0	3	15	20.0%	7.0%
23			Allan Hancock College	7.2	1	3	33.3%	6.1%
24			Tepusquet Road--north slope	18.0	1	3	33.3%	6.1%
25			Midland School (restricted access)	22.4	1	3	33.3%	6.1%
26			San Miguelito Road at Sudden Road	18.9	2	10	20.0%	5.7%
27			Birabent Canyon	23.7	2	13	15.4%	4.3%
28			Santa Maria Country Club (restricted access)	4.4	2	16	12.5%	3.5%
29			Meadow Creek/Monarch Butterfly Preserve	22.1	4	49	8.2%	3.2%
30			Los Alamos Park	12.6	3	34	8.8%	3.0%
31			Hans Christian Andersen Park	24.6	1	6	16.7%	3.0%
32			Dana Foothill Road	15.1	1	6	16.7%	3.0%
33			Orcutt Community Park	2.1	1	7	14.3%	2.6%
34			Los Flores Ranch Open Space	7.0	1	7	14.3%	2.6%
35			Oso Flaco Lake (not for beach/ocean)	15.8	20	514	3.9%	2.5%
36			Pismo Beach Golf Course (Restricted Access)	21.9	1	8	12.5%	2.2%
37			River Park (SBA Co.)	13.2	1	11	9.1%	1.6%
38			River View Park and Santa Ynez Valley Botanic Garden (Santa Barbara Co.)	21.3	1	12	8.3%	1.5%
39			Pismo SB--North Beach Campground	22.2	1	14	7.1%	1.3%
40			Los Alamos--Wastewater Treatment Plant (8690 Bell Street)	11.3	1	14	7.1%	1.3%
41			La Purisima Mission State Historic Park	11.9	1	19	5.3%	0.9%
42			Ocean Beach County Park	13.3	3	111	2.7%	0.9%
43			Pismo Creek mouth	22.5	2	79	2.5%	0.7%
44			Oceano County Park	20.4	1	28	3.6%	0.6%
45			Arroyo Grande Creek mouth	20.1	1	57	1.8%	0.3%